On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
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).
large squid installations frequently need to have tens of thousands of files open. your imap daemon may as well if you're using maildir with a large number of users...
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