On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 08:03:54AM +0000, Emmanuel Dreyfus wrote: > On Fri, Jul 09, 2021 at 08:52:08PM +0000, David Holland wrote: > > This was discussed somewhere briefly (probably on chat) a couple weeks > > ago, with the conclusion that we should just make the limit something > > like twice the maximum number of open files and forget about it. No > > real need to add more knobs. > > Here is a patch that ties it to maxfiles, with documentation. Tying > to open files would be more complex. We could also tie to > curproc->p_rlimit[RLIMIT_NOFILE].rlim_cur if that is more relevant.
Well, that was the idea; make it some factor times the current open file limit or something like that. Not sure why the existing limit is apparently per-user rather than per-process or what that's supposed to accomplish. These lock objects are not exactly large so it's not necessary to be tightfisted with them. note typo: > unprivilegied -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org