On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Wieland Gmeiner wrote: > 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.
This is a system tuning issue, not justification for two new system calls. - James -- James Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - 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/
