Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH -v4] random: introduce getrandom(2) system call | From | Bernd Petrovitsch <> | Date | Wed, 30 Jul 2014 16:40:52 +0200 |
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On Mit, 2014-07-30 at 07:56 -0600, Bob Beck wrote: > Pavel. I have bit 'ol enterprise daemon running with established file > descriptors serving thousands of connections > which periodically require entropy. Now I run out of descriptors. I > can't establish new connections. but I should > now halt all the other ones that require entropy? I should raise > SIGKILL on my process serving these thousands > of connetions? I don't think so.
If that long-running daemon periodically needs something from a device, one would better keep the fd for that open the whole time. Saves some CPU cycles and latency too BTW.
Bernd -- "I dislike type abstraction if it has no real reason. And saving on typing is not a good reason - if your typing speed is the main issue when you're coding, you're doing something seriously wrong." - Linus Torvalds
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