Re: Out of filedescriptors

At 12:04 22/11/96 +0000, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
>} > Does anyone has experiance in how to increase the maximum number of
>} > open filedescriptors from 256 to 2048. I know this has to be some changes
>} > in kernel sources and recompilation.
>
>For a 2.0.x kernel it can be changed by modding the sysctl file in
>/proc/sys/kernel
>
>you should just be able to do
> echo 2048 >/proc/sys/kernel/file-max
>
>and there should be no need for a recompile.

Sorry. In fact this increases the total number of file descriptors allowed
on the machine. The _per-process_ number i.e. NR_OPEN stays the same.

>However the libraries need to allocate a large enough structure for fdset
>- which *could* be done by having you allocating a bigger chunk and
>casting it to an fdset without hacking your include files... and using the
>right values in the select call.

This only matters when NR_OPEN changes to be greater than FDSET_SIZE

Apparently (I have been told) select adjusts automatically. Perhaps it uses
getrlimit() the first time it is called, and remembers it as NR_OPEN can't
be changed on the fly.I don't have the libc source so I can't say. Oskar
describes how to increase NR_OPEN nicely.

Assuming the list got my previous message on the subject, then if you look
back at it, as I said there is a problem on linux that squid is marking too
many fd's as reserved (and gets the total number wrong too), as it assumes
FDSET_SIZE==NR_OPEN. This should be fixed.

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Received on Fri Nov 22 1996 - 05:44:22 MST