Re: VFS: file-max limit 50044 reached

[Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>]

Christoph Hellwig a écrit :
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 11:10:04AM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 
>>Dont take me wrong : I really *need* the file RCU stuff added in 2.6.14.
> 
> 
> how so? and why should we care?  I'd rather see a 2.6.14 soon with
> the changes backed out so we can have a proper release that more or
> less sticks to the release schedule we agreed on at kernel summit.
> You'll have four weeks time to sort out the issue afterwards.
> -

Christoph,

You can try to hide the forest by killing some trees.

Are you sure that RCU 'file structs' is the only problem lying around ?

For instance, I think other RCU freeing problem are dormant (see maxbatch=10 
and think about the number of routes a busy router (or DOS attack) can handle...

Of course, a 'test program' is more difficult to write than a

while (1) close(open("/dev/null", 3));

Eric