Re: Oops when trying to create more than 16000 timers

[Ottavio Campana]

Pekka Enberg wrote:
> I think you're simply hitting RLIMIT_SIGPENDING and then tripping over
> a bug in alloc_posix_timer() that's fixed by commit
> aa94fbd5ccd840c8ab26d02439ec799b03a72547 ("fix error-path NULL deref
> in alloc_posix_timer()") in 2.6.28-rc8.
> 
> Dan, can you please send your patch to the -stable queue as well?

Pekka, can this RLIMIT_SIGPENDING be modified? For my application, I
will need 60k timers.

Thanks,

Ottavio
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