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LCE: The failure of operating systems and how we can fix it

LCE: The failure of operating systems and how we can fix it

Posted Nov 24, 2012 19:26 UTC (Sat) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
In reply to: LCE: The failure of operating systems and how we can fix it by Cyberax
Parent article: LCE: The failure of operating systems and how we can fix it

>> I don't have the time to look it up right now, but I remember seeing a /proc entry that removed the <1024 limit.

> There is no such record (I naively thought so too). You can check the Linux source.

Ok, I thought I remembered seeing it at some point in the past, I may have mixed it up with the ability to bind to IP addresses that aren't on the box <shrug>

I wonder how quickly someone could whip up a patch to add this ;-)

seriously, has this been discussed and rejected, or has nobody bothered to try and submit something like this?


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LCE: The failure of operating systems and how we can fix it

Posted Nov 24, 2012 19:58 UTC (Sat) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

Yes, I remember that such patch was proposed way back then and rejected. And now it will be further complicated by cgroups/namespaces/whatever.

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