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SubjectRe: File-descriptors - large quantities
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> Would anyone armed with the necessary experience care to enlighten me on
> the effectiveness/practicality of pushing linux 2.0.32 up to (say)
> 12,000 file-descriptors-per-process?

Wheeee...

> We already run 3,000 per process, and I can assure you that it's
> insufficient for our current network requirements. Can anyone think of
> any basic barrier to pushing the fd-set size up, and increasing the
> descriptor maximum, seeing as we have already got the 3000fd patch
> running?

Memory fragmentation may become your limit for that in 2.0.x. There isnt
a fundamental reason you cant crank that patch up further if you dont
hit too much fragmentation


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