On Thu, 18 Aug 2005, Wieland Gmeiner wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 04:05 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > Is there a realistic use case where this new system call is actually useful
> > and solves something that cannot be solved without it?
>
> As an example: It seems to be a common problem with numerous services to
> run out of available file descriptors. There are several workarounds to
> this problem, the most common seems to be increasing the systemwide max
> number of filedescriptors and restarting the service. If you google for
> e.g. 'linux "too many open files"' you get a bunch of mailing list
> support requests about that problem.
This is a system tuning issue, not justification for two new system calls.
- James
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