Re: Dormant FD usage.

Dirk Harms-Merbitz writes:
>
> Has anybody done a mini-FAQ on increasing the number of file descriptors
> in Linux?
http://www.linux.org.za/filehandle.patch.linux
or (this is an older patch, since I am not absolutely sure that the one above
works - everyone else is fine, but I haven't used it...)

http://www.linux.org.za/filehandle.patch.linux.old is one that lets
you increase it to 2048, I think. There is also an even older patch at
filehandle.patch.linux.older....

> On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, Sergei wrote:
>
> > >File descriptor usage for squid:
> > > Max number of file desc available: 1024
> > > Largest file desc currently in use: 739
> > > Available number of file descriptors: 285
> > > Reserved number of file descriptors: 100
> > >
> >
> > with ~800 fd in use you better up more the #fd in kernel. we've uped a
> > linux 2.0.29 to 4096 descriptors with no problems. NOVM uses a lot of them
> > it seems.
Received on Tue Apr 01 1997 - 23:54:21 MST