file descriptors??
is there any debian policy on number of file descriptors compiled into the
kernel? (and also in limits.h in libc6-dev - AFAIK pretty much everything
that uses select() will need to be recompiled if the limit is increased).
some time ago the debian kernels came patched with 1024 fd's. this meant
that squid and apache and other servers could run out of the box without
running out of file descriptors (linux crashes badly when it runs out of
fd's - not a pretty sight).
recent kernels seem to have reverted back to 256 fd's.
imo, 256 just isn't enough...especially when nearly the entire
distribution has to be recompiled if a user wants to recompile a kernel
with the >256 fd's patch.
the latest ">256 fd's patch" mallocs an arbitrary number of file
descriptors.
should something be done about this for 2.0? or wait until 2.1?
btw, we'll face have to face this problem when the 2.1 kernel is released
as 2.2.
craig
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