On Friday 02 April 2004 03:06 pm, David Brownlee wrote:
> 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).

Evolution and BitTorrent have both failed for me with 64.