File 27cd7635-increase-daemons-file-limit.patch of Package libvirt.6751
commit 27cd76350021d36b9bd8b187ce5c8919659e3806
Author: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Date: Wed Mar 15 16:51:51 2017 +0000
Increase default file handle limits for daemons
Linux still defaults to a 1024 open file handle limit. This causes
scalability problems for libvirtd / virtlockd / virtlogd on large
hosts which might want > 1024 guest to be running. In fact if each
guest needs > 1 FD, we can't even get to 500 guests. This is not
good enough when we see machines with 100's of physical cores and
TBs of RAM.
In comparison to other memory requirements of libvirtd & related
daemons, the resource usage associated with open file handles
is essentially line noise. It is thus reasonable to increase the
limits unconditionally for all installs.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>
Index: libvirt-2.0.0/daemon/libvirtd.service.in
===================================================================
--- libvirt-2.0.0.orig/daemon/libvirtd.service.in
+++ libvirt-2.0.0/daemon/libvirtd.service.in
@@ -23,8 +23,11 @@ ExecStart=@sbindir@/libvirtd $LIBVIRTD_A
ExecReload=/bin/kill -HUP $MAINPID
KillMode=process
Restart=on-failure
-# Override the maximum number of opened files
-#LimitNOFILE=2048
+# At least 1 FD per guest, often 2 (eg qemu monitor + qemu agent).
+# eg if we want to support 4096 guests, we'll typically need 8192 FDs
+# If changing this, also consider virtlogd.service & virtlockd.service
+# limits which are also related to number of guests
+LimitNOFILE=8192
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Index: libvirt-2.0.0/src/locking/virtlockd.service.in
===================================================================
--- libvirt-2.0.0.orig/src/locking/virtlockd.service.in
+++ libvirt-2.0.0/src/locking/virtlockd.service.in
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@ ExecReload=/bin/kill -USR1 $MAINPID
# cause the machine to be fenced (rebooted), so make
# sure we discourage OOM killer
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
[Install]
Also=virtlockd.socket
Index: libvirt-2.0.0/src/logging/virtlogd.service.in
===================================================================
--- libvirt-2.0.0.orig/src/logging/virtlogd.service.in
+++ libvirt-2.0.0/src/logging/virtlogd.service.in
@@ -13,6 +13,11 @@ ExecReload=/bin/kill -USR1 $MAINPID
# cause the machine to be fenced (rebooted), so make
# sure we discourage OOM killer
OOMScoreAdjust=-900
+# Need to have at least one file open per guest (eg QEMU
+# stdio log), but might be more (eg serial console logs)
+# libvirtd.service written to expect 4096 guests, so if we
+# guess at 2 log files per guest here (stdio + 1 serial):
+LimitNOFILE=8192
[Install]
Also=virtlogd.socket