RE: Runtime File Descriptor settings

Jordan Mendelson (jordy@wserv.com)
Fri, 17 Apr 1998 17:09:50 -0400

> >That and I've heard that setting file descriptors in your kernel
> to 1024 or
> >higher wastes a heck of a lot of RAM.
>
> On 32-bit machines, its 64 bytes (unless I counted wrong) * NR_OPEN per
> process (regardles of rlimits).

Per process? Setting NR_OPEN to 1024 would use 65 KB. I have 124 processes
running at the moment.. so you are saying that FD allocation is using 8 megs
of ram?

Jordan

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