Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: How to increat [sic.] max open files? | | From | Andi Kleen <> | | Date | 03 Jan 1997 21:40:39 +0100 |
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"Andrew E. Mileski" <aem@ott.hookup.net> writes:
> > Okay! Now, how many FDs should a process be allowed to have? This has to > > I'd go with 4096 file descriptors as a standard amount. > > WARNING! This means a FD_SET is 512 bytes, and having 6 copies on the > kernel stack for select() will consume 3k of the 4k. The kernel stack > allocation must be increased.
Better allocate the fd_sets dynamically in sys_select().
-andi
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