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    SubjectRe: fork: out of memory
    > Zlatko Calusic wrote:
    > > Only thing I'm not sure at the moment is, would 4096 be a good idea?
    > > That would require changes of some constants in kernel, which then
    > > would require some software to be recompiled.
    > >
    > > But then again, if Solaris supports 4096 fd's, why shouldn't Linux?
    > >
    > > Can I have other's opinion on *that*?
    >
    > Yes! We're about to port a BSD application to Linux,
    > and we expect (when it's run in a fully scaled system)
    > that it could consume 4K fd's or more ... Is it possible
    > to make this limit completely dynamic? That would help
    > us a great deal ...

    No.

    Due to select() braindamage, nr. of files you can used at once is
    defined by size of structures around select(). Too bad. Unix just _is_
    broken, somewhere.

    Pavel

    --
    I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel
    Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).

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