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SubjectRe: Problems raising fd limits in 1.3.78-1.3.80
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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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