From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 09:11:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 09:11:32 -0400 Received: from [208.51.139.18] ([208.51.139.18]:8718 "EHLO missioncriticallinux.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 18 Jul 2001 09:11:17 -0400 Message-ID: <3B558B35.9020902@missioncriticallinux.com> Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 09:12:21 -0400 From: "Patrick O'Rourke" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2) Gecko/20010628 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck Winters CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Number of File descriptors In-Reply-To: <20010713095934.A6100@atl.lmco.com> <20010717094642.A21464@atl.lmco.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Abhishek Chandra and David Mosberger wrote an interesting paper on this subject which was presented at this year's Usenix conference. See "Scalability of Linux Event-Dispatch Mechanisms" at (you must be a member of Usenix to download it): http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/usenix01/technical.html Pat -- Patrick O'Rourke orourke@missioncriticallinux.com