Subject: Re: bumping default open descriptors
To: Jesper Louis Andersen <jlouis@mongers.org>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 04/02/2004 16:06:36
On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Jesper Louis Andersen wrote:
> > - currently it's 64, raise to what? 128? 256? i'm vaguely
> > inclined to make it 256 but i'd also like to allow MD code to
> > lower the limit back to 64 if they want (is this actually
> > necessary?)
>
> My experience: Either the program you are tryping to run is written
> poorly and insists on 1000 fd's, or the program is written well and
> requires 3. So I am not sure anything would be gained.
I've found galeon works quite well with 256 but is very unhappy
with 64. I'd imagine there are other large X apps which fall into
that category (whether they should is another matter).
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