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Date: Sat, 31 Aug 2002 23:51:35 +0100
From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <gilbertd@treblig.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [patch 2.4.19] reboot on out-of-file handles
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* Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-08-31 at 21:16, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> > Hi,
> >   Please find below a patch that adds the ability to panic if you run
> > out of file handles (by setting /proc/sys/fs/file-max-panic to none-0).
> 
> You can already do this reliably in user space as part of your watchdog
> daemon processing.

Ah - good idea.
The only thing that doesn't do (which my patch doesn't do much of), is
log the state of the system at failure - I'd really like to know what
ate all the filehandles.

Dave
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