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

[Joel Jaeggli]

On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:

> 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).

large squid installations frequently need to have tens of thousands of 
files open. your imap daemon may as well if you're using maildir with a 
large number of users...

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