Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 3 Jan 1997 08:09:14 -0500 (EST) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: How to increat [sic.] max open files? |
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On 3 Jan 1997 rdm@tad.micro.umn.edu wrote:
> Richard B. Johnson: > > I think that a task, process, program, etc., that needs more than 100 > > file handles is improperly written. Keeping that many files open at any > > one time will cause file destruction if the system crashes. > > Only if the file handles refer to files. > > [Consider sockets, pipes, etc. For example: qmail-send's handling of > qmail-remote, see > ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/pub/software/qmail-0.95.tar.gz.] > > -- > Raul > Do you really think that a single task can handle 100 sockets open to 100 clients in an efficient manner?
Now, I don't KNOW what the number is. But I do KNOW that the number is not "N"! Having some kind of enforced limit causes one to design code rather than just winging it.
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