Comment 7 for bug 1155695
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| Michael Kerrisk (mtk-manpages) wrote Re: [Bug 1155695] Re: mq_overview(7) contains outdated, inaccurate fs.mqueue.queues_max limit description | #7 |
On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Arto Bendiken <email address hidden> wrote:
> Michael, thanks for looking into this.
>
> In answer to your question: yes, it caused the IPC mechanism in the
> database engine my company develops (dydra.com) to break, causing not a
> little aggravation. While we don't need millions of message queues, we
> had been relying on having at least a few thousand, and 1024 is just too
> low a hard limit. As we can't possibly require a custom-built kernel to
> run our software, we are now contemplating switching from POSIX to SysV
> message queues instead. Not a happy day...
Arto, I don't think you should be doing that. The upstream kernel
broke user space here, and I am sure that was not intended. I would
imagine that an upstream fix that repairs your problem would probably
be accepted. How about we pursue that line instead?
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Michael Kerrisk
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