unconfigurable limits

Kay Sievers kay.sievers at vrfy.org
Tue Aug 17 04:29:16 PDT 2004


On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 00:17 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-08-16 at 19:47, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > The hal-device-manager the python application using D-BUS is still
> > unusable, cause of the hard coded D-BUS limits.
> > Another limit reaching part of HAL simply removed D-BUS and
> > communicates now by its own domain socket, for that reason. 
> > 
> > What is the proper fix for that. After reading the list I only know,
> > what not to do.
> > 
> 
> Well, question 1 is: are you reaching the limit because you have a lot
> of legitimate match rules (128 is the current limit it looks like), or
> because you have a bug and are leaking match rules.
> 
> If you have 128 for a good reason then we should probably just bump up
> the limit. How many do you need?

Last time I changed it in the sources and needed something around 200,
if if connect all my USB-devices.

> It is certainly configurable, btw, afaik at least. See man page. You can
> use this to experiment and see how high the limit needs to be ;-)

I can't find it in the code.

Thanks,
Kay



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