[SOLVED] Re: Increasing the maximum number of open files

[Mikael Abrahamsson]

On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Rainer Traut wrote:

> 90.000 was just an example.
> There are programs which need many more than 1024 open files and they 
> are not buggy in this context.

IRC servers routinely have 10k+ TCP connections open, so yes, there is 
definately a legitimate use of a lot of open "files" (or fd:s in this 
case).

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se