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From: boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz (Boyd Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Is there a limit to create sockets on UNIX??
Message-ID: <1822@necisa.ho.necisa.oz>
Date: 8 Aug 90 05:46:00 GMT
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In article <8307@pitt.UUCP> jonathan@speedy.cs.pitt.edu (Jonathan Eunice) writes:
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>The correct approach to per-process open files is indeed increasing the
>maximum, static number.  SunOS, with its 256 limit, and especially AIX
>3.1, with its 2,000 limit, have begun to move the figure above most any
>potential problem.

Sorry?  Increasing the maximum to an absurdly large value is not a
`correct approach'.  Do it properly and make it truly dynamic.

The last thing we need is a u-area with a u_ofile[2000] declaration.
How much ram will be blown away by those 2000 (struct file *)'s?

And how many programs actually require 2000 open files?  Very few.


Boyd Roberts			boyd@necisa.ho.necisa.oz.au

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