Re: 2.2.1-ac3 Oops with many fds

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 5 Feb 1999 02:01:49 +0000 (GMT)


> I raise the system limit while things were running. This seems like
> quite a bad idea in hindsite :-{. It did run for a many seconds past

It shouldnt be

> TLAN: Couldn't allocate memory for receive data.

Do you know from your logs if the TLAN message occured about the same time
as the others ?

> EIP is in:
> TLan_HandleRxEOF

That looks like the thunderlan driver did something wrong in the out of memory
situation rather than the big file handles.

> There was an interesting syslog line many seconds before the oops:
> Feb 4 14:48:04 tanker kernel: VFS: file-max limit 4096 reached

You hit your global limit of 4096 different files

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