Re: why no fdset patch in kernel?

Dancer (dancer@zeor.simegen.com)
Tue, 22 Jun 1999 07:07:14 +1000


"Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Sat, 19 Jun 1999 10:32:06 +1000, Dancer <dancer@zeor.simegen.com>
> said:
>
> > Every one of our internal and production servers requires a minimum of
> > 3000 fds. (Well, okay, about three out of a hundred boxes don't actually
> > need that many). We've done some prelim tests on a server with
> > 2.2.7-ac2, but I admit my boss was crestfallen to find out that the fd
> > mods didn't make the mainstream kernel.
>
> They are mainstream enough: afaik all of the major distributions ship
> them with their 2.2 kernels now.

Which, politically, is quite a different thing.

D

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