Re: File-descriptors - large quantities

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 8 Jul 1998 12:37:28 +0100 (BST)


> If you really need this many FDs and can't spread the load over multiple
> squids, you might want to look at the newer kernels with Bill Hawes patches
> to support gobs of FDs and also poll(2).

That is probably very good advice - I've run >15,000 fds in a process with
Bill's patches (a fairly naive first cut intrusion detector that listens
to a lot of ports and spoofs know vulnerabilities 8))

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