Thread (11 messages) 11 messages, 2 authors, 2021-07-29

Re: [RFC PATCH v2 1/3] misc_cgroup: add support for nofile limit

From: Tejun Heo <hidden>
Date: 2021-07-27 16:32:23
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Hello,

On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 11:18:00AM +0800, brookxu wrote:
According to files_maxfiles_init(), we only allow about 10% of free memory to
create filps, and each filp occupies about 1K of cache. In this way, on a 16G
memory machine, the maximum usable filp is about 1,604,644. In general
scenarios, this may not be a big problem, but if the task is abnormal, it will
very likely become a bottleneck and affect other modules. 
Yeah but that can be configured trivially through sysfs. The reason why the
default limit is lowered is because we wanna prevent a part of system to
consume all the memory through fds. With cgroups, we already have that
protection and at least some systems already configure file-max to maximum,
so I don't see a point in adding another interface to subdivide the
artificial limit.

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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