AW: [Users] ... Strange User-Bean-Counter: othersockbuf

[Robert Heinzmann]

Hi, 

but isn't barrier a soft limit, which is granted as long as there are
enougth resources ? 

Is'nt limit the one that is never satisfied ? 

Regards,
Robert

> > /proc/user_beancounter
> > ...
> > resource          held   maxheld   barrier   limit       failcnt
> > othersockbuf      16184  4364184   6000000   12000000       11
> > ...
> >
> > Altought the barrier was never reached, a failcnt is 
> recorded. How can 
> > this happen ? Is this a bug ?
> >   
> Strange that no one has answered this before, it's pretty 
> trivial. Sorry for the late reply, I was on vacation.
> 
> If an app tries to allocate more than (barrier - held) bytes 
> at once, this allocation will fail, failcnt will increase, 
> maxheld won't change.
> 
> Say, in your scenario, if 4364184 bytes is currently 
> allocated and a program tries to allocate another 2000000 
> bytes, such allocation will fail with no change in 
> held/maxheld and an increment to failcnt.
>