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Jim Bo #1
File Descriptors
Greetings, all.
Can anyone tell me if there are any risks associated with increasing
the number of file descriptors for an application/user process beyond
the default 1024?
I am running on Solaris 5.8.
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Doug Freyburger #2 Re: File Descriptors
Jim Bo wrote:
Enjoy debugging some application that opens that many files at once!>
> Can anyone tell me if there are any risks associated with increasing
> the number of file descriptors for an application/user process beyond
> the default 1024?
I suspect the risks are organizational more than technical except
for programs using expect() system calls. More resources for a
rootkit to use if you get cracked, more interaction of two programs
opening the same file without checking optional locks, etc.
Many of the original limits come from a time when memory was much
more expensive.
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