Re: FAQ followup: changes in open fd/proc in 2.4.x?

From: Andi Kleen (ak@suse.de)
Date: Fri Nov 17 2000 - 11:21:47 EST


On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 10:58:12AM -0500, Doug Alcorn wrote:
> With the 2.2.x kernel, our choices are basically to live with the
> limitation or redesign. We certainly don't like the limitation and
> are talking about a redesign.

Later 2.2.x (x>=11 or so) has no limitations on fds/procs, other than what you set
with ulimit and the global limit (/proc/sys/fs/{file,inode}-max)
2.2.x before that need to be recompiled for more than 1024 fds/proc and they
will also waste a lot of memory for high settings.

Some older library functions may cause problems though when they use select()
and you pass a fd>=1024 to them.

-Andi

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