Re: fork: out of memory
Pavel Machek (pavel@Elf.mj.gts.cz)
Tue, 25 Nov 1997 11:52:46 +0100
> 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
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