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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-12-04 08:52:14 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-12-04 08:52:14 +0100 |
| commit | cb9c34e6d090d376b77becaa5d29a65dec7f4272 (patch) | |
| tree | 3678abce20d6825aebe3fec218057d4131e13fd6 /Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | |
| parent | 470c66239ef0336429b35345f3f615d47341e13b (diff) | |
| parent | 061e41fdb5047b1fb161e89664057835935ca1d2 (diff) | |
Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc7' into core/locking
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index bcceb99b81dd..bb1b0dd3bfcb 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ Table of Contents 2.14 /proc/<pid>/io - Display the IO accounting fields 2.15 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter - Core dump filtering settings 2.16 /proc/<pid>/mountinfo - Information about mounts + 2.17 /proc/sys/fs/epoll - Configuration options for the epoll interface ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Preface @@ -2483,4 +2484,30 @@ For more information on mount propagation see: Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt +2.17 /proc/sys/fs/epoll - Configuration options for the epoll interface +-------------------------------------------------------- + +This directory contains configuration options for the epoll(7) interface. + +max_user_instances +------------------ + +This is the maximum number of epoll file descriptors that a single user can +have open at a given time. The default value is 128, and should be enough +for normal users. + +max_user_watches +---------------- + +Every epoll file descriptor can store a number of files to be monitored +for event readiness. Each one of these monitored files constitutes a "watch". +This configuration option sets the maximum number of "watches" that are +allowed for each user. +Each "watch" costs roughly 90 bytes on a 32bit kernel, and roughly 160 bytes +on a 64bit one. +The current default value for max_user_watches is the 1/32 of the available +low memory, divided for the "watch" cost in bytes. + + ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ + |