Re: Problems raising fd limits in 1.3.78-1.3.80

Matthias Urlichs (smurf@smurf.noris.de)
Wed, 10 Apr 1996 15:27:24 +0100

In linux.dev.kernel, article <199604071147.MAA00285@dax.dcs.ed.ac.uk>,
"Stephen C. Tweedie" <linux@dcs.ed.ac.uk> writes:
>=20
> No use --- the main reason (or one of them) for having loads of fds i=
s
> to support many simultaneous network connections on server processes,
> and you simply can't close those and reopen them arbitrarily.
>=20
Writing a listener+exploder process isn't that difficult.

It's also, however, quite unnecessary, given that the kernel is able to=
use
more than 256 fds. Ummm... well, it should be. People seem to say it's =
not,
right now, which should be fixed ASAP.

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