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Ralph Boehme 6e419dda71 ctdb: increase TasksMax limit, the systemd default is just 512
In 2015 systemd introduced a TasksMax which limits the number of processes in a
unit:

https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-November/035006.html

The default of 512 may be too low in certain situations leading to vfork()
failing with errno=EAGAIN when trying to spawn lock-helper processes.

With the default for LockProcessesPerDB being 200 the increased TasksMax limit
should cover the problematic scenario.

Additional background: the failing vfork()s have been seen on production
clusters and were tracked down to being logged in the context of ctdb calling
tdb_repack().

Links:

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https://www.suse.com/support/kb/doc/?id=000015901
https://success.docker.com/article/how-to-reserve-resource-temporarily-unavailable-errors-due-to-tasksmax-setting
https://www.percona.com/blog/2019/01/02/tasksmax-another-setting-that-can-cause-mysql-error-messages/

Signed-off-by: Ralph Boehme <slow@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Martin Schwenke <martin@meltin.net>

Autobuild-User(master): Martin Schwenke <martins@samba.org>
Autobuild-Date(master): Wed May 13 13:30:12 UTC 2020 on sn-devel-184
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This is the release version of CTDB, a clustered implementation of TDB
database used by Samba and other projects to store temporary data.

This software is freely distributable under the GNU public license,
a copy of which you should have received with this software (in a file
called COPYING).

For documentation on CTDB, please visit CTDB website http://ctdb.samba.org.