Ubuntu 11.04 Kernel Configurations

[Scott Ritchie]

On 03/24/2011 11:09 AM, Leann Ogasawara wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> With the Ubuntu 11.04 Beta-1 release approaching, the Ubuntu Kernel Team
> felt this would also be an appropriate time to advertise what we intend
> to be the final kernel configurations for all the main distro and ports
> kernel flavors.  The purpose is to expose the main configuration changes
> and provide pointers to the full configurations for those who are
> interested.  To aid in the comparison of kernel config changes from
> Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick) to Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty) we have generated a
> delta report [1].  We have also posted the full Ubuntu 10.10 and Ubuntu
> 11.04 configurations for each flavor [2].
> 
> Thanks,
> The Ubuntu Kernel Team
> 
> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Configs/MaverickToNatty
> [2] http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/configs
> 
> 

Perhaps this is an appropriate time to ask, since I've been trying to
ask for months now in mailing list/IRC but never apparently to the right
person...

Can the kernel team please raise the hard limit for file descriptors
(but keep the soft limit)?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/663090

I'm having real applications break from this, and the change shouldn't
affect any app that doesn't request it manually.

Thanks,
Scott Ritchie