Re: Issue with max_threads (and other resources) and highmem

Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
23 Oct 2001 22:36:51 +0200


In article <72940000.1003868385@baldur>,
Dave McCracken <dmccr@us.ibm.com> writes:

> What's the best approach here?

I would just limit it to a reasonable max value; e.g. 10000
if someone needs more than 10000 threads/processes he/she can set sysctls
manually. The current scheduler would choke anyways if only a small
fraction of 10000 threads are runnable.

-Andi
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