Proposed patch for Samba-2.0.7 to allow Solaris open more than 1014 (or rlim_fd_max) files

[Gerhard Wiesinger]

On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Gerhard Wiesinger wrote:

> On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Tim Potter wrote:
>
> > Gerhard Wiesinger writes:
> >
> > > > I would like to submit the following patch to source/lib/util.c to allow
> > > > Samba under Solaris to open more than 1014 files -- or whatever the kernel
> > > > variable rlim_fd_max is set to.
> > >
> > > The patch works fine for me. When will the patch be included into CVS?
> >
> > OK - since there are multiple reports of it actually working, I
> > can probably merge it in to HEAD.  Hopefully Jeremy will pick it
> > up for the next 2.2 release.
> >
>
> Can you integrate it into the 2.0.7 source tree too?
>
> BTW: I tested it on Suse Linux 7.0 (Kernel 2.2.16) and had the following
> limitations with the patch.
>
> I did with bash:
>    echo 16384 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max
>    echo 30000 > /proc/sys/fs/inode-max
> works well.
>
> Setting the rlimit works until the following:
>   rlp.rlim_max = 1048576; // Works on Linux 2.2.16
>   rlp.rlim_max = 1048577; // Operation not permitted on Linux 2.2.16
>
> So rlp.rlim_max = RLIM_INFINITY; does not work on Linux 2.2.16.
>
> So we could try infinity and when it does not work try this limit.
>

Why was the rlimit patch from Eric not integrated into 2.0.8?

Ciao,
Gerhard