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- From: jdt@voodoo.boeing.com (Jim Tomlinson)
- Newsgroups: comp.client-server
- Subject: Re: TCP limitation in UNIX (was: Client/Server - rpc)
- Message-ID: <3298@voodoo.UUCP>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 21:43:44 GMT
- References: <IMV.92Nov4125505@yosemite.inesc.pt>
- Sender: news@voodoo.UUCP
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- Distribution: comp
- Organization: BoGART To You, Buddy
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- In article <IMV.92Nov4125505@yosemite.inesc.pt>, imv@yosemite.inesc.pt (Idalina Videira) writes:
- |> In a post in this thread Robert Cooper referred the problem of
- |> running out of file descriptors when using TCP based communication.
- |>
- |> I heard that in newer versions of UNIX the number of file descriptors
- |> a proccess can use simultaneously is around a thousand but I don't
- |> know in exactly what systems. Does someone have accurate information
- |> on this?
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- Sorry to waste bandwidth; mail keeps bouncing. This number is
- configurable (at least with Silicon Graphics' IRIX) via a text file (if
- you're root). Once you reconfigure a bootable kernel (on IRIX, with
- the 'lboot' command), you reboot and the new value is in effect.
- --
- Jim Tomlinson BoGART Project Boeing Computer Services Bellevue, WA
- jdt@voodoo.boeing.com ...uunet!bcstec!voodoo!jdt (206)865-6578
- "It's the end of the world as we know it; I feel fine."
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