Re: Linux max on shared buffers?

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 07:52:56AM -0400, Jan Wieck wrote:
> >
> > No resource limit on that? So my 200 backends all map some random
> > 16,000 blocks from 400 files and the kernel jiggles with it like
> > it's never did anything else?
>
> My machine here is idling not doing much and the kernel is managing 53
> processes with 223 open files currently caching some 52,000 blocks and 1140
> mmap()ed areas. I'm sure if I actually did some work I could make that much
> higher.
>
> In short, if you have a machine capable of running 200 backends, I wouldn't
> be surprised if the kernel wasn't already managing that kind of load.
> Remember, brk() is really just a special kind of mmap().

Okay,

I'm running out of arguments here. So where is the patch?

Jan

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