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Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:07:27 +0100 From: Florian Weimer <fw@...eb.enyo.de> To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Cc: DSA <debian-admin@...ts.debian.org>, team@...urity.debian.org, libpam-modules@...kages.debian.org Subject: Re: 2.6.28, rlimits, performance and debian etch * Peter Palfrader: > Turns out that script is forking a lot and something in it or python or > whereever closes all the file descriptors it doesn't want to pass on. > That is, it starts at zero and goes up to ulimit -n/RLIMIT_NOFILE and > closes them all with a few exceptions. > > Turns out that takes a long time when your limit -n is now 2^20 (1048576). Interesting. Can we make /proc more-or-less mandatory, so that the file descriptor list can be retrieved explicitly? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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