Re: [RFC][PATCH 6/6] automatic tuning applied to some kernel components

2007-02-15 Thread Nadia Derbey
Eric W. Biederman wrote: Nadia Derbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: But, what do you do with Oracle that's asking maxfiles to be set to 0x1, while the default value might be enough for a system that's not running Oracle. I'm afraid that giving boot time values to the max_* tunables we will l

Re: [RFC][PATCH 6/6] automatic tuning applied to some kernel components

2007-02-14 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Nadia Derbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But, what do you do with Oracle that's asking maxfiles to be set to 0x1, > while the default value might be enough for a system that's not running > Oracle. > I'm afraid that giving boot time values to the max_* tunables we will loose > all > the be

Re: [RFC][PATCH 6/6] automatic tuning applied to some kernel components

2007-02-14 Thread Nadia Derbey
Eric W. Biederman wrote: Nadia Derbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: So, should I understand from this that automatic tuning and the AKT framework itself would make sense, given that I find the rigth tunables it should be applied to? Sort of. The concept of things tuning themselves automatica

Re: [RFC][PATCH 6/6] automatic tuning applied to some kernel components

2007-02-14 Thread Al Boldi
ebiederm wrote: > At a quick glance max_threads and max_files appear even more to be > DOS limits and not tunables and even less applicable to needing any > tuning at all. My gut feel is at worst these values may need a little > better boot time defaults but otherwise they the should be good. Aut

Re: [RFC][PATCH 6/6] automatic tuning applied to some kernel components

2007-02-13 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Nadia Derbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, should I understand from this that automatic tuning and the AKT framework > itself would make sense, given that I find the rigth tunables it should be > applied to? Sort of. The concept of things tuning themselves automatically makes a lot of sense.

Re: [RFC][PATCH 6/6] automatic tuning applied to some kernel components

2007-02-13 Thread Nadia Derbey
Eric W. Biederman wrote: Nadia Derbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I do not fully agree with you: It is true that some ipc tunables play the role of DoS limits. But IMHO the *mni ones (semmni, msgmni, shmmni) are used by the ipc subsystem to adapt its data structures sizes to what is being aske

Re: [RFC][PATCH 6/6] automatic tuning applied to some kernel components

2007-02-09 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Nadia Derbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I do not fully agree with you: > It is true that some ipc tunables play the role of DoS limits. > But IMHO the *mni ones (semmni, msgmni, shmmni) are used by the ipc subsystem > to > adapt its data structures sizes to what is being asked for through the

Re: [RFC][PATCH 6/6] automatic tuning applied to some kernel components

2007-02-09 Thread Nadia Derbey
Eric W. Biederman wrote: Nadia Derbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: 2) why autotuning: There are at least 3 cases where it can be useful . for workloads that are known to need a big amount of a given resource type (say shared memories), but we don't know what the maximum amount needed will be .

Re: [RFC][PATCH 6/6] automatic tuning applied to some kernel components

2007-02-07 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Nadia Derbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 2) why autotuning: > There are at least 3 cases where it can be useful > . for workloads that are known to need a big amount of a given resource type > (say shared memories), but we don't know what the maximum amount needed will > be > . to solve the c

Re: [RFC][PATCH 6/6] automatic tuning applied to some kernel components

2007-01-23 Thread Nadia Derbey
Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 07:15:22 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following kernel components register a tunable structure and call the auto-tuning routine: . file system . shared memory (per namespace) . semaphore (per namespace) . message queues (per namespace) This is

Re: [RFC][PATCH 6/6] automatic tuning applied to some kernel components

2007-01-22 Thread Andrew Morton
> On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 07:15:22 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The following kernel components register a tunable structure and call the > auto-tuning routine: > . file system > . shared memory (per namespace) > . semaphore (per namespace) > . message queues (per namespace) This is the pa

[RFC][PATCH 6/6] automatic tuning applied to some kernel components

2007-01-15 Thread Nadia . Derbey
[PATCH 06/06] The following kernel components register a tunable structure and call the auto-tuning routine: . file system . shared memory (per namespace) . semaphore (per namespace) . message queues (per namespace) Signed-off-by: Nadia Derbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- fs/file_table.c