Commit c66cb171 authored by Eric Curtin's avatar Eric Curtin Committed by Jonathan Corbet
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Update Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst 



max_user_watches for epoll should say 1/25, rather than 1/32

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Curtin <ericcurtin17@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210120132648.19046-1-ericcurtin17@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent 798eb4cc

Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst

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@@ -380,5 +380,5 @@ This configuration option sets the maximum number of "watches" that are 
allowed for each user.

Each "watch" costs roughly 90 bytes on a 32bit kernel, and roughly 160 bytes

on a 64bit one.

The current default value for  max_user_watches  is the 1/32 of the available

low memory, divided for the "watch" cost in bytes.
 
The current default value for  max_user_watches  is the 1/25 (4%) of the

available low memory, divided for the "watch" cost in bytes.