On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:38:07AM +0200, Alexander Shishkin wrote: > When a file descriptor limit is hit, display the top consumers of > descriptors so that it is possible to identify and fix those which > leak them. > > Two new sysctl tunables are introduced: > * file-max-consumers -- number of processes to display (defaults > to 10); > * file-max-rate-limit -- time interval between subsequent dumps > (defaults to 10 seconds). That *still* doesn't answer the most important question: what for? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html