Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Alan Cox <> | | Subject | Re: IP Alias Limit | | Date | Sat, 21 Sep 1996 14:37:47 +0100 (BST) |
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> is to show a "manager" that Linux can scale to something FreeBSD can do. > It has not been easy to explain why there is an arbitrary limit placed on > the number of open FD's, since I don't know the answer.
Binary compatibility is the answer. You can build the C library without the default 256 limit if you want.
Alan
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