[libvirt] [PATCH 2/2] Increase default file handle limits for virtlockd

Christian Ehrhardt christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com
Wed Oct 18 09:19:30 UTC 2017


The assumption so far was an average of 4 disks per guest.
But some architectures, like s390x, still often use plenty of smaller disks.

To include those in the considerations an assumption of an average of 10
disks is more reasonable.

Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
---
 src/locking/virtlockd.service.in | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/locking/virtlockd.service.in b/src/locking/virtlockd.service.in
index 928bf63..07e4847 100644
--- a/src/locking/virtlockd.service.in
+++ b/src/locking/virtlockd.service.in
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ ExecReload=/bin/kill -USR1 $MAINPID
 OOMScoreAdjust=-900
 # Needs to allow for max guests * average disks per guest
 # libvirtd.service written to expect 4096 guests, so if we
-# allow for 4 disks per guest, we get:
-LimitNOFILE=16384
+# allow for 10 disks per guest, we get:
+LimitNOFILE=40960
 
 [Install]
 Also=virtlockd.socket
-- 
2.7.4




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