Date: Sun, 03 Aug 1997 12:26:43 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Cliff Addy <fbsdlist@federation.addy.com> Cc: "Andrew N. Edmond" <edmond@shaman.lycaeum.org>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Too many open files in System! Message-ID: <3101.870636403@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 03 Aug 1997 11:47:44 EDT." <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970803114414.5334B-100000@federation.addy.com>
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> seems to seems to also be a NAQ (Never Answered Question). I myself have > asked it several times and the answers, involving CHILD_MAX and OPEN_MAX > and limits, never work. Apparently, FreeBSD is too primitive to handle > more than a few files at once. You simply need to implement file swapping. Keep a cache of file descriptors you've opened and implement a simple LRU algorithm to close those which haven't been used for awhile - in your code which handles the failure cases for reads/writes, you then add an extra bit of glue to handle the failure case (e.g. the handle was closed) which jumps back to the cache code and asks that the file be reopened again (you'll also need to save the current file position before you close files, of course, so that you can seek back to where you left off when you "reinstate" a cache entry). Easy. > (please realize the above is an intentional goad to get SOMEONE to finally > answer this. I love FreeBSD :) ) (please realize that the above is a parody answer in response to an intentional goad to get SOMEONE to realize that we don't rise to such bait :-) Jordan
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