From: Tim Hockin <thockin@sun.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "Ogden, Aaron A." <aogden@unocal.com>,
autofs@linux.kernel.org, Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Subject: Re: RE: autofs scalability
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 14:37:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031204223733.GJ10772@sun.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FCF9367.8040804@zytor.com>
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 12:04:55PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Ditto. It's simple, but it just hasn't been high enough priority.
> >
>
> It really would be better if it was dynamic. Any fixed limit (other
> than 2^20 minors) is really a hack.
You either allocate 2^20 bits for every user, or you allocate it as needed
(and handle alloc failures when they are least expected) or you sysctl it
and let the admin decide early on whether she wants to allow large numbers
of pseudo-devs.
--
Tim Hockin
Sun Microsystems, Linux Software Engineering
thockin@sun.com
All opinions are my own, not Sun's
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-04 22:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-03 19:19 autofs scalability Ogden, Aaron A.
2003-12-03 19:43 ` Tim Hockin
2003-12-04 1:37 ` Ian Kent
2003-12-04 19:12 ` Tim Hockin
2003-12-04 20:04 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-12-04 22:37 ` Tim Hockin [this message]
2003-12-04 23:09 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-12-04 23:12 ` Tim Hockin
2003-12-03 20:01 ` Mike Waychison
2003-12-04 1:35 ` Ian Kent
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