From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org,
fabbione@ubuntu.com, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: VFS nr_files accounting
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 22:47:48 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060306.224748.86458359.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060307064120.GA5946@in.ibm.com>
From: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 12:11:20 +0530
> On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 12:39:04PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> > I think we should seriously consider these patches for 2.6.16
>
> Isn't it a little too late in the 2.6.16 cycle ? I would have
> liked a little more time in -mm. Anyway, it is Linus' call.
> I can refresh the patches and submit against latest mainline
> if Linus and Andrew want.
Users can run widely published programs to make one's system run out
of file descriptors and make the machine totaly unusable.
If that doesn't qualify for something to fix for 2.6.16 I don't know
what does. :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-07 6:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-04 10:25 VFS nr_files accounting David S. Miller
2006-03-04 14:17 ` Dipankar Sarma
2006-03-04 22:22 ` David S. Miller
2006-03-04 22:28 ` David S. Miller
2006-03-04 22:32 ` David S. Miller
2006-03-05 7:05 ` Dipankar Sarma
2006-03-05 7:37 ` David S. Miller
2006-03-05 11:38 ` Dipankar Sarma
2006-03-06 20:39 ` David S. Miller
2006-03-07 6:41 ` Dipankar Sarma
2006-03-07 6:47 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2006-03-07 8:02 ` Dipankar Sarma
2006-03-07 6:53 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-07 7:00 ` David S. Miller
2006-03-07 8:09 ` Dipankar Sarma
2006-03-07 8:55 ` Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
2006-03-07 7:06 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-07 12:09 ` Dipankar Sarma
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