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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Issue with max_threads (and other resources) and highmem
Date: 23 Oct 2001 22:36:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <k28ze2drfg.fsf@zero.aec.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <72940000.1003868385@baldur>
In-Reply-To: Dave McCracken's message of "Tue, 23 Oct 2001 15:19:45 -0500"

In article <72940000.1003868385@baldur>,
Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com> writes:

> What's the best approach here?

I would just limit it to a reasonable max value; e.g. 10000
if someone needs more than 10000 threads/processes he/she can set sysctls
manually. The current scheduler would choke anyways if only a small
fraction of 10000 threads are runnable.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-23 20:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-23 20:19 Issue with max_threads (and other resources) and highmem Dave McCracken
2001-10-23 20:36 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2001-10-23 20:46   ` Dave McCracken
2001-10-23 20:52 ` Rik van Riel
2001-10-23 21:05   ` Dave McCracken
2001-10-23 21:59     ` Rik van Riel
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-10-23 23:30 Dan Kegel
2001-10-23 23:35 ` Rik van Riel
2001-10-24  0:00   ` Dan Kegel

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