Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Roman Gollent <> | Subject | Re: Problems raising fd limits in 1.3.78-1.3.80 | Date | Wed, 3 Apr 1996 12:31:36 -0500 (EST) |
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Stephen Tweedie wrote: > Yup. I wonder if it's worth upping the limit in libc (as exported by > linux/fs.h) to 1024 anyway? It only really affects the size of the > fd_set, so it doesn't cost much. It ought to be pretty easy to make > the kernel's maximum fd number configurable, with processes inheriting > the current default value on fork() (we probably don't want to change > the fd table size dynamically on existing processes).
This brings up another point. How much of a rewrite is required to be able to dynamically reconfigure certain kernel variables without recompilation?
I'm thinking of an /etc/sysconfigtab (Digital Unix) equivalent where one can edit the parameters, reboot the system and have them take effect.
Roman
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