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| author | Xiaotian Feng <dfeng@redhat.com> | 2009-09-23 15:56:13 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-09-24 07:20:57 -0700 |
| commit | bcadbbd4c896c80c263c35ce94b763e5ff58cecd (patch) | |
| tree | 9163d1f30b65d16552a955822d99198ff901b7f9 /Documentation/sysctl | |
| parent | 16c01b20ae0572d5a1fe8059f1b4c09f79b73cbf (diff) | |
Documentation: update stale definition of file-nr in fs.txt
In "documentation: update Documentation/filesystem/proc.txt and
Documentation/sysctls" (commit 760df93ec) we merged /proc/sys/fs
documentation in Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt and
Documentation/filesystem/proc.txt, but stale file-nr definition
remained.
This patch adds back the right fs-nr definition for 2.6 kernel.
Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng<dfeng@redhat.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/sysctl')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt | 17 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt index 1458448436c..62682500878 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt @@ -96,13 +96,16 @@ handles that the Linux kernel will allocate. When you get lots of error messages about running out of file handles, you might want to increase this limit. -The three values in file-nr denote the number of allocated -file handles, the number of unused file handles and the maximum -number of file handles. When the allocated file handles come -close to the maximum, but the number of unused file handles is -significantly greater than 0, you've encountered a peak in your -usage of file handles and you don't need to increase the maximum. - +Historically, the three values in file-nr denoted the number of +allocated file handles, the number of allocated but unused file +handles, and the maximum number of file handles. Linux 2.6 always +reports 0 as the number of free file handles -- this is not an +error, it just means that the number of allocated file handles +exactly matches the number of used file handles. + +Attempts to allocate more file descriptors than file-max are +reported with printk, look for "VFS: file-max limit <number> +reached". ============================================================== nr_open: |