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Article #55Re: TCP limitation in UNIX (was: Client/Server - rpc)
From: Jim Tomlinson
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 21:43
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 21:43
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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?
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.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!bcstec!voodoo!voodoo.boeing.com!jdt 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 Reply-To: jdt@voodoo.boeing.com Distribution: comp Organization: BoGART To You, Buddy Lines: 18