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author | James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> | 2008-12-04 17:16:36 +1100 |
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committer | James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> | 2008-12-04 17:16:36 +1100 |
commit | ec98ce480ada787f2cfbd696980ff3564415505b (patch) | |
tree | 1a4d644b38f9f1e4b4e086fde0b195df4a92cf84 /Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | |
parent | 3496f92beb9aa99ef21fccc154a36c7698e9c538 (diff) | |
parent | feaf3848a813a106f163013af6fcf6c4bfec92d9 (diff) |
Merge branch 'master' into next
Conflicts:
fs/nfsd/nfs4recover.c
Manually fixed above to use new creds API functions, e.g.
nfs4_save_creds().
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index bcceb99b81d..bb1b0dd3bfc 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ Table of Contents 2.14 /proc/<pid>/io - Display the IO accounting fields 2.15 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter - Core dump filtering settings 2.16 /proc/<pid>/mountinfo - Information about mounts + 2.17 /proc/sys/fs/epoll - Configuration options for the epoll interface ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Preface @@ -2483,4 +2484,30 @@ For more information on mount propagation see: Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt +2.17 /proc/sys/fs/epoll - Configuration options for the epoll interface +-------------------------------------------------------- + +This directory contains configuration options for the epoll(7) interface. + +max_user_instances +------------------ + +This is the maximum number of epoll file descriptors that a single user can +have open at a given time. The default value is 128, and should be enough +for normal users. + +max_user_watches +---------------- + +Every epoll file descriptor can store a number of files to be monitored +for event readiness. Each one of these monitored files constitutes a "watch". +This configuration option sets the maximum number of "watches" that are +allowed for each user. +Each "watch" costs roughly 90 bytes on a 32bit kernel, and roughly 160 bytes +on a 64bit one. +The current default value for max_user_watches is the 1/32 of the available +low memory, divided for the "watch" cost in bytes. + + ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ + |