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Subject: Re: PATCH: 2.5.40 sane minimum proc count
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
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On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 14:27, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> why not simply:
> 
> 	max_threads = mempages / (THREAD_SIZE/PAGE_SIZE) / 8;
> 
> +	/* we need to allow at least 20 threads to boot a system */
> +	if (max_threads < 20)
> +		max_threads = 20;
> +
> 	init_task.rlim[RLIMIT_NPROC].rlim_cur = max_threads/2;
> 	init_task.rlim[RLIMIT_NPROC].rlim_max = max_threads/2;
> 
> i think we're going to see more kernel threads with 2.5 than we did with 2.4;
> let's be safer.

Much better, will switch

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