From bcadbbd4c896c80c263c35ce94b763e5ff58cecd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Xiaotian Feng Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:56:13 -0700 Subject: Documentation: update stale definition of file-nr in fs.txt In "documentation: update Documentation/filesystem/proc.txt and Documentation/sysctls" (commit 760df93ec) we merged /proc/sys/fs documentation in Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt and Documentation/filesystem/proc.txt, but stale file-nr definition remained. This patch adds back the right fs-nr definition for 2.6 kernel. Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng Cc: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt | 17 ++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt index 1458448436cc..62682500878a 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 +reached". ============================================================== nr_open: -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b