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From: Simon Lai <sjlai@synatech.com.au>
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Subject: 180,000+ kevents - out of memory
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Hi,

I want to monitor a large number of sockets
using kevents.  I get an out of memory error
when I try to submit more than 180,000 kevents.

What kernel tunables will allow me to increase
the number of kevents that I can allocate?

regs

Simon