On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Alex Kocharin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Why is this limit of 1024 opened files enforced by default in the first > place? Because history. Every open file uses some amount of kernel space to keep track of it. Plus you had things like select(2) with FD_SETSIZE equal to 1024 by default, so these limits made sense, especially on older computers with limited memory. Nowadays we use epoll/kqueue and don't need those arbitrary limits quite so much, but some level of limit is still useful in case you leak file descriptors. Matt. -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
