On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 05:59:33PM +0100, David Howells wrote: > Make it possible to avoid ENFILE checking for kernel specific open files, such > as are used by the CacheFiles module. > > After, for example, tarring up a kernel source tree over the network, the > CacheFiles module may easily have 20000+ files open in the backing filesystem, > thus causing all non-root processes to be given error ENFILE when they try to > open a file, socket, pipe, etc.. No, just increase the limit. The whole point of the limit is to avoid resource exaustion. A file doesn't use any less ressources just becuase it's opened from kernelspace. In doubt increase the limit or even the default limit.
