On Wed, Jun 01, 2022 at 09:18:27PM +0000, Frank van der Linden wrote: > A related issue: there is currently no upper limit that I can see > on the number of active OPENs for a client. So essentially, a > client can run a server out of resources by doing a very large > number of OPENs. > > Should there be an upper limit, above which requests are either > denied, or old state is invalidated? Could be, if only to prevent abuse. It doesn't seem to be a problem people hit in practice, though. Delegations add a bit of a wrinkle, as they allow the client do do opens and locks locally without limit, and denying them during recovery from a delegation break is ugly. --b.
