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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: threads-max observe limits
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2019 16:23:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mueuu2oz.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190923080808.GA6016@dhcp22.suse.cz> (Michal Hocko's message of "Mon, 23 Sep 2019 10:08:08 +0200")


Michal,

Thinking about this I have a hunch about what changed.  I think at some
point we changed from 4k to 8k kernel stacks.  So I suspect if your
client is seeing a lower threads-max it is because the size of the
kernel data structures increased.

Eric


  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-23 21:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-17 10:03 threads-max observe limits Michal Hocko
2019-09-17 15:28 ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2019-09-17 15:38   ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-17 17:26     ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-09-18  7:15       ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-19  7:59         ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-19 19:38           ` Andrew Morton
2019-09-19 19:33         ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-09-22  6:58           ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-22 15:31             ` Heinrich Schuchardt
2019-09-22 21:40               ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-09-22 21:24             ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-09-23  8:08               ` Michal Hocko
2019-09-23 21:23                 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2019-09-24  8:48                   ` Michal Hocko

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