linux-sg2042/Documentation/filesystems
Eric Dumazet 9cfe015aa4 get rid of NR_OPEN and introduce a sysctl_nr_open
NR_OPEN (historically set to 1024*1024) actually forbids processes to open
more than 1024*1024 handles.

Unfortunatly some production servers hit the not so 'ridiculously high
value' of 1024*1024 file descriptors per process.

Changing NR_OPEN is not considered safe because of vmalloc space potential
exhaust.

This patch introduces a new sysctl (/proc/sys/fs/nr_open) wich defaults to
1024*1024, so that admins can decide to change this limit if their workload
needs it.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export it for sparc64]
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-06 10:41:06 -08:00
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configfs correct missing a double quote in configfs.txt 2008-02-03 16:10:08 +02:00
00-INDEX Documentation: add entries to filesystems/00-INDEX for several untracked files 2007-10-17 08:43:05 -07:00
9p.txt 9p: add virtio transport 2007-10-23 13:47:31 -05:00
Exporting exportfs: update documentation 2007-10-22 08:13:21 -07:00
Locking Fix misspellings of "system", "controller", "interrupt" and "necessary". 2007-10-19 23:10:43 +02:00
adfs.txt Fix typos in /Documentation : 'U-Z' 2006-11-30 04:58:40 +01:00
affs.txt [PATCH] kernel Doc/ URL corrections 2005-11-22 09:14:30 -08:00
afs.txt [AFS]: Update the AFS fs documentation. 2007-04-26 15:57:43 -07:00
automount-support.txt VFS: Unexport do_kern_mount() and clean up simple_pin_fs() 2006-06-09 09:34:16 -04:00
befs.txt Fix typos in Documentation/: 'Q'-'R' 2006-10-03 22:54:15 +02:00
bfs.txt [PATCH] update Tigran's email addresses 2006-12-13 09:05:53 -08:00
cifs.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
coda.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
cramfs.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
dentry-locking.txt [PATCH] VFS: split dentry locking documentation 2005-11-07 07:53:56 -08:00
directory-locking Documentation: Fix up docs still talking about i_sem 2007-05-24 10:16:17 -07:00
dlmfs.txt Fix typos in Documentation/: 'D'-'E' 2006-10-03 22:47:42 +02:00
ecryptfs.txt eCryptfs: Move ecryptfs docs into Documentation/filesystems/ 2007-07-17 10:23:08 -07:00
ext2.txt Fix typos in Documentation/: 'N'-'P' 2006-10-03 22:52:05 +02:00
ext3.txt documentation/ext3: grammar fixes 2007-10-20 02:38:36 +02:00
ext4.txt ext4: Add multi block allocator for ext4 2008-01-29 00:19:52 -05:00
files.txt Documentation/filesystems/files.txt: remove rcuref_inc_lf() reverences 2007-10-20 01:47:49 +02:00
fuse.txt [PATCH] fuse: fix typo 2006-12-30 10:56:45 -08:00
gfs2.txt [GFS2] Update documentation 2006-04-25 15:44:04 -04:00
hfs.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
hfsplus.txt Documentation: document HFSPlus 2007-07-31 15:39:38 -07:00
hpfs.txt misc doc and kconfig typos 2007-05-09 08:58:15 +02:00
inotify.txt [PATCH] inotify (5/5): update kernel documentation 2006-06-20 05:25:19 -04:00
isofs.txt It's UTF-8 2006-03-22 00:13:35 +01:00
jfs.txt JFS: document uid, gid, and umask mount options in jfs.txt 2007-03-09 10:27:31 -06:00
locks.txt Documentation: move locks.txt in filesystems/ 2007-10-09 18:32:45 -04:00
mandatory-locking.txt locks: add warning about mandatory locking races 2007-10-09 18:32:45 -04:00
ncpfs.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
ntfs.txt NTFS: Fix a mount time deadlock. 2007-10-12 09:16:30 -07:00
ocfs2.txt [PATCH 2/2] ocfs2: cluster aware flock() 2008-01-25 15:05:43 -08:00
porting Documentation/filesystems/porting fixes 2008-02-03 17:59:17 +02:00
proc.txt get rid of NR_OPEN and introduce a sysctl_nr_open 2008-02-06 10:41:06 -08:00
quota.txt quota: send messages via netlink 2007-10-17 08:42:56 -07:00
ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt Documentation: fix type error 2008-02-03 14:50:11 +02:00
relay.txt doc: use correct debugfs mountpoint 2008-02-03 16:30:51 +02:00
romfs.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
smbfs.txt Linux-2.6.12-rc2 2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00
spufs.txt Fix typos in /Documentation : 'U-Z' 2006-11-30 04:58:40 +01:00
sysfs-pci.txt Fix typos concerning hierarchy 2007-02-17 19:23:03 +01:00
sysfs.txt docs/sysfs: add missing word to sysfs attribute explanation 2007-10-20 02:39:43 +02:00
sysv-fs.txt [PATCH] fs/sysv/: doc cleanup 2006-12-07 08:39:44 -08:00
tmpfs.txt mount -t tmpfs -o mpol=: check nodes online 2007-06-08 17:23:32 -07:00
udf.txt [PATCH] Update udf documentation to reflect current state of read/write support 2006-11-16 11:43:38 -08:00
ufs.txt [PATCH] ufs2 write: mount as rw 2007-02-12 09:48:40 -08:00
vfat.txt fat: don't use free_clusters for fat32 2007-05-08 11:15:13 -07:00
vfs.txt Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt: typo fix 2007-10-20 02:35:36 +02:00
xfs.txt [XFS] Update XFS documentation. 2005-11-03 13:46:43 +11:00
xip.txt misc doc and kconfig typos 2007-05-09 08:58:15 +02:00