Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 3 Sep 2000 21:06:49 +0100 | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: Newbie question: mmap() and file descriptor limits |
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Hi,
On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 01:42:28PM -0600, Evan Jones wrote: > > I hope this has not been discussed before. I think I have searched the > archive fairly exhaustively. This issue may also no longer exist on the > 2.4 kernel series because I have not tested it on that kernel. > > I have been experimenting with a web server (thttpd) which uses a cache > of mmaped files to serve requests. It opens a file, mmaps it then closes > it to avoid running into the perprocess file descriptor limits. Instead, > it ends up running into the system file descriptor limits which makes > the system unusable for anything but the web server process. FreeBSD > does it differenly. Files can be mmaped and do not count towards the > limit.
Then increase the system-wide limit in /proc/sys/fs/file-max (just echo a new value there).
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