Tomas, I am currently working on integration of this patch. What puzzles me is the call to "howmany()". I don't find any doc on it, nor an implementation inside the patch. Could you elaborate what it does and where it stems from?
Also, I think there is a segfault in gss-misc, because the glbl interface is never aquired (the will result in a NULL-pointer dereference). I also need to change the glbl interface definitions, FdSetSize must always be present, else the interface is no longer well-defined. I will post the completely integrated patch when I am done. But feedback on howmany() would be most appreciated, because I currently do not know exactly how to handle it. Thanks, Rainer > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Tomas Heinrich > Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 5:25 PM > To: rsyslog-users > Subject: [rsyslog] support for arbitrary number of open files > > Hi all, > > currently the total number of files (and tcp connections) that can be > open simultaneously is limited by the select() system call. Ideally > this > would be changed to *poll(), but that can take some time. > > Until that happens, this patch[1] tries to remove the limitations of > select() by enlarging the bit mask that is used for storing file > descriptor information and redefining the macros that process it. > This modification is inspired by Bind's use of select(). > It is rather a workaround and may not be entirely portable. > > The actual changes to the code aren't big, but they are in many places > so sufficient testing is needed. Allocating and freeing fd_sets in > some > frequently called functions may decrease performance. This can be dealt > with but would require more pervasive changes. > > Thoughts? > > Thanks, > Tomas > > [1] - http://people.redhat.com/pvrabec/rsyslog-4.4.2-unlimited- > select.patch > > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
