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From: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
To: Zheng Li <dev@zheng.li>, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: Dave Scott <Dave.Scott@citrix.com>, Joe Jin <joe.jin@oracle.com>,
	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com>,
	Luonengjun <luonengjun@huawei.com>,
	Fanhenglong <fanhenglong@huawei.com>,
	Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@citrix.com>,
	"Liuqiming (John)" <john.liuqiming@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/8] oxenstored: add facilities to raise the max open fds uplimit
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 10:38:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54180504.7070102@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1410820760-7994-3-git-send-email-dev@zheng.li>

On 15/09/14 23:39, Zheng Li wrote:
> To go beyond 1024 fds, we also need to raise the process limitation on max
> open fds (usually defaults to 1024).
> 
> We need to know the system level max open fds so that we won't go above that.
> Simply setting the limit to RLIM_INFINITY doesn't work on Linux 3.x (EPERM), a
> patch on this went into the 2.x branch but not 3.x for some reason. Also,
> getting the system level nr_open is not very straightfoward on 3.x, which is
> mentioned in the comment inline.

>From sysctl(2):

       "Since Linux 2.6.24, uses of [the sysctl] system call result in
        warnings in the kernel log.   Remove  it  from  your
        programs now; use the /proc/sys interface instead."

So using /proc/sys is the correct method and not some awkward workaround.

David

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-09-16  9:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-15 22:39 Some oxenstored improvements Zheng Li
2014-09-15 22:39 ` [PATCH 1/8] oxenstored: add a poll-based select mechanism Zheng Li
2014-09-16  9:01   ` David Scott
2014-09-16 13:00     ` Zheng Li
2014-09-15 22:39 ` [PATCH 2/8] oxenstored: add facilities to raise the max open fds uplimit Zheng Li
2014-09-16  9:05   ` Dave Scott
2014-09-16  9:38   ` David Vrabel [this message]
2014-09-16 13:05     ` Zheng Li
2014-09-15 22:39 ` [PATCH 3/8] oxenstored: add a --use-select command line flag Zheng Li
2014-09-15 22:39 ` [PATCH 4/8] oxenstored: catch the error when a connection is already deleted Zheng Li
2014-09-16  9:08   ` Dave Scott
2014-09-15 22:39 ` [PATCH 5/8] oxenstored: use hash table to store socket connections Zheng Li
2014-09-15 22:39 ` [PATCH 6/8] oxenstored: enable domain connection indexing based on eventchn port Zheng Li
2014-09-16  9:16   ` Dave Scott
2014-09-16 13:13     ` Zheng Li
2014-09-15 22:39 ` [PATCH 7/8] oxenstored: only process domain connections that notify us by events Zheng Li
2014-09-16  9:19   ` Dave Scott
2014-09-16 13:34     ` Zheng Li
2014-09-15 22:39 ` [PATCH 8/8] oxenstored: fine tunning the recognition of domain connections with queued input/output Zheng Li

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