Re: Thread implementations...
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 19 Jun 1998 13:43:03 +0100 (BST)
> > 10000 files at the same time and holding onto the file handles.
> > This is exactly what's required to build a top end webserver to get
> > winning Specweb96 numbers on NT using TransmitFile.
> >
> > Yes, I know this.
>
> Is it not possible to configure Linux to be able to use 10k or greater file
> descriptors (in 2.1.xxx) by tweaking /proc/sys/fs/file-max and inode-max?
> (shooting down the earlier comment regarding recompiling the kernel to allow 10k
> or greater file descriptors...)
With Bill Hawes patches for handling file arrays it is. For the generic case
its not. Note that you can forget using select() with 10K descriptors
if you ever want to get any work done.
Alan
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