Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Apr 1998 20:59:32 +0100 (BST) | From | Riley Williams <> | Subject | Re: Runtime File Descriptor settings |
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Hi Jordan.
On Fri, 17 Apr 1998, Jordan Mendelson wrote:
> BSD/OS has the ability to automatically tune the max file > descriptors per process at runtime. I was curious if anyone was > working on such a thing for Linux.
> I ask this simply because I need 1024 fd's for a single process, > but not for all processes. In fact, I want it to be capped at 256 > for most processes.
> That and I've heard that setting file descriptors in your kernel to > 1024 or higher wastes a heck of a lot of RAM.
Does there have to be a per-process maximum, or could the kernel just keep assigning file ID numbers as requested, and reusing closed ones when available?
Best wishes from Riley.
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