On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Tim Hockin wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 01:19:27PM -0600, Ogden, Aaron A. wrote:
> > 'unnamed device' limit has been raised from 256 to 4096 in kernel 2.6,
> > can anyone confirm this? If this is the case the only barrier left to
> > remove is the RPC port limitation of ~800 open ports. If the
> > connections were multiplexed such that all connections to a given server
> > used the same port then 800 ports would stretch a lot farther than they
> > do now...
>
> We're investigating the 800 limit reasoning. 2.6.(last I looked) has not
> removed the 256 limit, but has made it so that it CAN BE removed. We hav a
> prelim patch for that, which I wan tot rework, some, maybe.
>
Are you refering to the sysctl recommendation.
I would like to do it but haven't had time.
I'll let you know if I get to start work on it.
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