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Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:49:02 +0000
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] NR_OPEN should be raised a litle bit
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On Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:53:08 +0100
Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> wrote:

> Time has come to change NR_OPEN value, some production servers hit the
> not so 'ridiculously high value' of 1024*1024 file descriptors per process.

Why fiddle with the kernel defaults when every distribution can manage
this in user space - including picking defaults by memory size or
platform ?