Re: [PATCH] Sysctl interface to UNIX_INFLIGHT_TRIGGER_GC v.3

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From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Friday, December 10, 2010 - 6:04 am

Le vendredi 10 décembre 2010 à 15:48 +0300, Pavel Vasilyev a écrit :

zero to disable ?

Maybe you missed commit 9915672d41273f5b77 intent.

If you have no limit (like old kernels), you can freeze your machine,
even if it has terabytes of ram, running a single program, even as a non
root user.

When we discussed about the fix, we said a limit was needed, obviously.

Now you'll have to prove we need to make it a sysctl (yet
another /proc/sys/net parameter, yet another documentation to add...)

Even changing default from 16000 to 2000 must be for a valid reason (a
real use case)



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[PATCH] Sysctl interface to UNIX_INFLIGHT_TRIGGER_GC v.2, Pavel Vasilyev, (Thu Dec 9, 10:26 am)
Re: [PATCH] Sysctl interface to UNIX_INFLIGHT_TRIGGER_GC v.3, Eric Dumazet, (Fri Dec 10, 6:04 am)