Re: Oops when trying to create more than 16000 timers

[Pekka Enberg]

Hi Ottavio,

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?

Ottavio Campana wrote:
> Pekka, can this RLIMIT_SIGPENDING be modified? For my application, I
> will need 60k timers.

I'd assume you can do that via the setrlimit() system call. See the man 
page for details.
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