Re: why no fdset patch in kernel?

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 18 Jun 1999 16:00:03 +0100 (BST)

> that the linux kernel, by itself, cannot serve a high hit web site,
> without a modification of file descriptor limits in the kernel. Since
> their is only 1024 fd's available, as a hard limit, set in the source.

Umm. I think you are mistaken there, certainly for apache. the 1024 is
_per_process_. Apache doesn't use hundreds of fds per process. Zeus may
hit the 1024 fd limit. To hit 1024 fds on apache you;d need a lot of
static mmap files or 1000 odd different log files

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