Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc6 1/2] New Syscall: get rlimits of any process (update)

[Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>]

On Iau, 2005-08-18 at 14:17 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> Maybe the distros need to just increase the default FD limit to 1024.  I
> hit this constantly with gtk-gnutella, if try to download a file that's
> available on more than 1024 hosts it will open sockets until it hits
> that limit then bomb out.

Sounds like a remarkably badly designed application. The author should
perhaps look at the papers on tcp capture and efficiency unless they
have a truely remarkably huge network pipe.

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