Bug#1029152: systemd: Revisit disabling of bump fs.nr_open, bump-proc-sys-fs-nr-open=false

[Josh Triplett]

On Wed, 18 Jan 2023 10:27:48 -0600 Jesse Hathaway <jesse at mbuki-mvuki.org> wrote:
> Package: systemd
> Version: 252.4-1
> Severity: normal
> X-Debbugs-Cc: jesse at mbuki-mvuki.org
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Would it be possible to revisit the decision to disable
> bump-proc-sys-fs-nr-open, from commit,
> 084e84e33a403868b7f84159da745689e2ff0ba9 ^[1]?
> 
> This recently caused me trouble when running a minikube instance on my
> laptop which used a bunch of file descriptors. It would be nice to not
> need to write sysctl values to bump it higher. Are there any paths to
> reverting this patch? Thanks for maintaining systemd!!
> 
> [1]: https://salsa.debian.org/systemd-team/systemd/-/commit/084e84e33a403868b7f84159da745689e2ff0ba9.

Ideally, Debian should set the default value for this in the kernel,
rather than changing it at boot time.

(Also, ideally the default could change in the upstream kernel.)