From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Hedi Berriche <hedi@sgi.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch 1/1] init: Provide a kernel start parameter to increase pid_max v2
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:51:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100421195106.GA15958@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100421191213.GR16427@zorg.emea.sgi.com>
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 08:12:13PM +0100, Hedi Berriche wrote:
> Let's also not forget all those ephemeral user space tasks (udev and the likes)
> that will be spawned at boot time on even large systems with even more
> thousands of disks, arguably one might consider hack initrd and similar to work
> around the problem and set pid_max as soon as /proc becomes available but it's
> a bit of a PITA.
udev should properly handle large numbers of cpus and the tasks that it
spawns so as to not overload things. If not, and you feel it is
creating too many tasks, please let the udev developers know and they
will be glad to work with you on this issue.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-21 19:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-21 1:40 [Patch 1/1] init: Provide a kernel start parameter to increase pid_max Mike Travis
2010-04-21 1:52 ` [Patch 1/1] init: Provide a kernel start parameter to increase pid_max v2 Mike Travis
2010-04-21 9:23 ` Alan Cox
2010-04-21 16:59 ` Hedi Berriche
2010-04-21 17:18 ` Rik van Riel
2010-04-21 17:54 ` Mike Travis
2010-04-21 19:14 ` John Stoffel
2010-04-21 19:33 ` Hedi Berriche
2010-04-21 20:10 ` John Stoffel
2010-04-21 22:24 ` Greg KH
2010-04-21 22:49 ` Rik van Riel
2010-04-21 23:22 ` Greg KH
2010-04-22 9:28 ` Alan Cox
2010-04-22 12:58 ` Jack Steiner
2010-04-22 13:57 ` Robin Holt
2010-04-22 14:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-04-22 17:08 ` Robin Holt
2010-04-22 18:10 ` John Stoffel
2010-04-22 20:35 ` Andrew Morton
2010-04-25 7:16 ` Pavel Machek
2010-04-25 17:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-04-25 17:27 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-04-25 12:13 ` Pavel Machek
2010-04-26 19:48 ` [Patch 1/1] init: Provide a kernel start parameter to increase pid_max v3 Mike Travis
2010-04-26 20:46 ` Greg KH
2010-04-27 0:43 ` Mike Travis
2010-04-27 0:42 ` [Patch 1/1] init: Increase pid_max based on num_possible_cpus v4 Mike Travis
2010-04-21 17:58 ` [Patch 1/1] init: Provide a kernel start parameter to increase pid_max v2 Alan Cox
2010-04-21 19:12 ` Hedi Berriche
2010-04-21 19:51 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-04-21 20:12 ` Hedi Berriche
2010-04-21 22:05 ` Jack Steiner
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