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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt | 17 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt index 1458448436c..62682500878 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt @@ -96,13 +96,16 @@ handles that the Linux kernel will allocate. When you get lots of error messages about running out of file handles, you might want to increase this limit. -The three values in file-nr denote the number of allocated -file handles, the number of unused file handles and the maximum -number of file handles. When the allocated file handles come -close to the maximum, but the number of unused file handles is -significantly greater than 0, you've encountered a peak in your -usage of file handles and you don't need to increase the maximum. - +Historically, the three values in file-nr denoted the number of +allocated file handles, the number of allocated but unused file +handles, and the maximum number of file handles. Linux 2.6 always +reports 0 as the number of free file handles -- this is not an +error, it just means that the number of allocated file handles +exactly matches the number of used file handles. + +Attempts to allocate more file descriptors than file-max are +reported with printk, look for "VFS: file-max limit <number> +reached". ============================================================== nr_open: |