On Apr 01, 2007, at 14:36:11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Blame on the dual meaning of max_loop that it uses currently: to
initialize a set of loop devices and as a side effect, it also sets
the upper limit. People are complaining about the former constrain,
isn't it? Does anyone uses the 2nd meaning of upper limit?
- Ken
what sense would it make to set an upper limit at all?
we`re so happy to have none anymore :)
Well, the point of an upper limit might be to keep loop devices from
chewing up too much memory on a system. IE: To fail allocating more
loopdevs before you run OOM and start killing random userspace
processes.
Cheers,
Kyle Moffett
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