Re: VFS: file-max limit 50044 reached

[Christopher Friesen]

Dipankar Sarma wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 02:25:17PM -0600, Christopher Friesen wrote:

> > Could this be related to the "rename14 LTP test with /tmp as tmpfs and 
> > HIGHMEM causes OOM-killer invocation due to zone normal exhaustion" issue?

> Could very well be. Chris, could you please try booting
> with rcupdate.maxbatch=10000 and see if the problem goes away ?

And sure enough, that fixes it.  The dcache slab usage maxes out at 
around 11MB rather than consuming all of zone normal.

Is there any downside to this option?

Chris
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