Re: max_user_watches overflows on 16TB system.

[Davide Libenzi]

On Fri, 1 Oct 2010, Robin Holt wrote:

> 
> Following a boot of a 16TB system, we noticed that the max_user_watches
> sysctl was negative.  Is there any downside to converting that to a
> static long and handling the fallout from the change?  I believe that
> fallout includes changing the definition of epoll_watches over to an
> atomic_long_t as well.
> 
> Alternatively should we just limit max_user_watches to INT_MAX?

2B watches looks an acceptable limit to me, at least for now.
Nobody complained about not having enough of them so far.


- Davide


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