Re: 2.6.28, rlimits, performance and debian etch

From: Steve Langasek
Date: Thu Feb 26 2009 - 17:01:51 EST


On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:48:25PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote:
> Steve Langasek wrote:
> > It has already been mentioned that this does not apply to the upcoming
> > Debian 5.0 release (lenny); this patch is only present in the 4.0
> > release (etch), it was actually fixed in the development series to not
> > use RLIM_INFINITY *because* previous kernels didn't support this and
> > would cause pam_limits to throw log warnings.

> I've just migrated my home servers from Debian etch to lenny and bind9 now
> gives me this:

> named[17207]: max open files (1024) is smaller than max sockets (4096)

That's a separate issue; Debian bug #515673. I intend to solve this for
Debian 5.0.1.

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