number of processed and file descriptors
what is the maximum number of processes Linux 2.6 kernel can handle.
What is the maximum number of file descriptors that can be open ?
What are the conditions that impose these these restrictions.
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Relevant Pages
- [UNIX] OpenBSD File Descriptor Vulnerability (Additional Details)
... The following security advisory is sent to the securiteam mailing list, and can be found at the SecuriTeam web site: http://www.securiteam.com ... kernel checks closed file descriptors 0-2 (when running a setuid program), ...
(Securiteam) - OpenBSD local DoS and root exploit
... group) can fill the kernel file descriptors table, ... Because of a flaw in the way the kernel checks closed file ... The "root exploit" problem was fixed on the CVS a week ago, ... exec'ing a setuid program can make this program open files under these fds, ...
(Bugtraq) - Re: VFS: file-max limit reached when running on a virtual machine
... running on a qemu virtual machine configured with 512 MB of memory. ... > I understand that changes have been made recently to the way the kernel manages ... > file descriptors in order to improve real-time performance. ...
(Linux-Kernel) - Re: [Devel] Re: [PATCH 0/9] OpenVZ kernel based checkpointing/restart
... so that the kernel must check for such weird things anyway. ... restart as much as possible with existing userkernel APIs. ... Concerning individual file descriptors, limiting the number of open files before ... With a kernel-space implementation, all useless creations can be avoided, and no ...
(Linux-Kernel) - Re: [PATCH/RFC 2.6.21 3/5] ehca: completion queue: remove use of do_mmap()
... Owner tracking by pid is really dangerous. ... File descriptors can be ... This has a historic reason as we ... have needed to support fork, systemetc for kernel 2.6.9, ...
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