Re: 100 network limit

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 04:00:19 +1000
Anton Blanchard <anton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> Anyway as a short term fix Jamal suggested making a sysctl for this
> maximum. If fixing this all properly is out of the question for 2.6,
> would the sysctl approach be satisfactory? The other option is to just
> bump the limit and recognise that the user is on his own if performance
> sucks.

You could just add a bitmap with a reasonable upper limit (1024?) and use 
find_first_zero_bit()  I doubt doing that would be very intrusive.

-Andi