linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.28, rlimits, performance and debian etch

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Date:	Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:30:32 +0100
From:	Peter Palfrader <weasel@...ian.org>
To:	Frans Pop <elendil@...net.nl>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, libpam-modules@...kages.debian.org,
	debian-admin@...ts.debian.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.28, rlimits, performance and debian etch

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Frans Pop wrote:

> Steve Langasek wrote:
> > It has already been mentioned that this does not apply to the upcoming
> > Debian 5.0 release (lenny); this patch is only present in the 4.0
> > release (etch), it was actually fixed in the development series to not
> > use RLIM_INFINITY *because* previous kernels didn't support this and
> > would cause pam_limits to throw log warnings.
> 
> I've just migrated my home servers from Debian etch to lenny and bind9 now 
> gives me this:
> 
> named[17207]: max open files (1024) is smaller than max sockets (4096)
> 
> Redhat's BTS [1] tells me this is a kernel issue thatshould be solved [2] 
> by the "rlimit: permit setting RLIMIT_NOFILE to RLIM_INFINITY" patch in 
> 2.6.28.
> 
> One of my servers (DNS slave) is running the standard Debian 2.6.26 
> kernel, the other (DNS master) is running 2.6.29-rc6 so that does include 
> that patch. But both show the error!

That patch has been reverted for 2.6.29 and 2.6.28.(5 or 6 or so).

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