Re: >256 fd patch...

James L. McGill (fishbowl@fotd.netcomi.com)
Wed, 26 Mar 1997 10:07:14 -0600 (CST)


On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Oskar Pearson wrote:

>> >I have a patch for 8192 files per process (with a system wide limit of
>> >32768) for linux 2.0.29 at http://www.linux.org.za/filehandle.patch.linux
>
>> Do you see a lot of "Couldn't get a free page" and "Out of Memory" with this?
>I am getting a lot of "cannot fork" messages and:

>Damnit. Michael - Heeeeeelp! :)

I fear this issue is now going to vanish back into the black hole.
Thanks for working on it Oskar. I don't see anything in select.c
that would lead to this, but then, I'm no mechanic.

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