Re: large fdset for 2.0.37 (fwd)

Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
16 Jun 1999 09:41:49 +0200

In article <cistron.Pine.LNX.4.02A.9906160134180.1344-100000@shell.wt.net>,
Tom Tom Tom <dumbkid@wt.net> wrote:
>After I patched the 2.0.37 w/ the large filehandle patch,
>I set max number of open file per process to 2048 and set the
>max number of process to 2048 also. Then put
>
>in the rc.local . I started seeing
>
>do_ypcall: clnt_call: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Bad file descriptor
>do_ypcall: clnt_call: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Bad file descriptor
>do_ypcall: clnt_call: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Bad file descriptor
>
>in the apache error log. I recompiled apache,ypserv,ypbind and I still
>get this error in the apache error_log.
>
>I don't have this error on 2.0.36 before. What could cause that?

Many library functions, esp. the RPC functions, do not work well when
the # of open files is > 1024. Set the max. number of open files to
1024 and all will be well.

Mike.

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