On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Rainer Traut wrote: > 90.000 was just an example. > There are programs which need many more than 1024 open files and they > are not buggy in this context. IRC servers routinely have 10k+ TCP connections open, so yes, there is definately a legitimate use of a lot of open "files" (or fd:s in this case). -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: swmike@xxxxxxxxx