On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 04:05 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Is there a realistic use case where this new system call is actually useful > and solves something that cannot be solved without it?
As an example: It seems to be a common problem with numerous services to run out of available file descriptors. There are several workarounds to this problem, the most common seems to be increasing the systemwide max number of filedescriptors and restarting the service. If you google for e.g. 'linux "too many open files"' you get a bunch of mailing list support requests about that problem. Also some documention for specific services show that there is a need to adjust rlimits per process at runtime, e.g.: http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/FAQ/FAQ-11.html#ss11.4 http://slacksite.com/apache/logging.html http://staff.in2.hr/denis/oracle/10g1install_fedora3_en.html#n2 Thanks, Wieland - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
