[LTP] [PATCH v4 4/4] syscalls/msgstress: tune limit of processes for small machines

Cyril Hrubis chrubis@suse.cz
Thu Aug 19 18:00:01 CEST 2021


Hi!
> Forking the exactly amount of processes as the limit (either from
> max_pids or from cgroups) is risky - OS might be doing some work and
> interfere with the test.  Instead leave some reserve (hard-coded to
> 500) for the OS so the test won't fail on fork failure.

Isn't 500 far too many? I would expect that 50 would be more than
enough.

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Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz


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