Re: [PATCH 3/3] gssd: base the size of the fd array on the RLIMIT_NOFILE limit.

["J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 12:11:23PM +1100, Neil Brown wrote:
> We have previously raised the size of the 'pollarray' once (32 -> 256)
> and I have had another request to make it bigger.
> Rather than changing the hard-coded value, make it depend on
> RLIMIT_NOFILE.  This is an upper limit on the size of the array
> that can be passed to poll() anyway.

Sounds like a good idea.

Just out of curiosity: how does it fail?  I guess mounts just start
failing at some point--how do people find the workaround?

--b.

> 
> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
> ---
>  utils/gssd/gssd_proc.c |    5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/utils/gssd/gssd_proc.c b/utils/gssd/gssd_proc.c
> index 425b582..e32b2f0 100644
> --- a/utils/gssd/gssd_proc.c
> +++ b/utils/gssd/gssd_proc.c
> @@ -52,6 +52,7 @@
>  #include <sys/socket.h>
>  #include <arpa/inet.h>
>  #include <sys/fsuid.h>
> +#include <sys/resource.h>
>  
>  #include <stdio.h>
>  #include <stdlib.h>
> @@ -483,9 +484,13 @@ fail_keep_client:
>  void
>  init_client_list(void)
>  {
> +	struct rlimit rlim;
>  	TAILQ_INIT(&clnt_list);
>  	/* Eventually plan to grow/shrink poll array: */
>  	pollsize = FD_ALLOC_BLOCK;
> +	if (getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &rlim) < 0 &&
> +	    rlim.rlim_cur != RLIM_INFINITY)
> +		pollsize = rlim.rlim_cur;
>  	pollarray = calloc(pollsize, sizeof(struct pollfd));
>  }
>  
> 
> 
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