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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 1024 file descriptors should be enough for anyone
Date: Thu, 05 May 2022 13:35:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r158rz3c.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874k25726k.fsf@gmail.com> (Robert Pluim's message of "Wed, 04 May 2022 17:22:27 +0200")

Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> writes:

> Attached an initial attempt at using poll() instead of select(), and
> bumping the open filed descriptor limit to 10240. 

That's wonderful.

> Comments welcome (I can stick it on a branch if needed). Things that
> could be done:
>
> - make the upper limit either statically or dynamically configurable
>   (on GNU/Linux in theory you could have 1e6 open descriptors)

I think that would be nice.

> - a feature flag
> - dynamic switching between poll and select

I guess those could be handy when debugging, but I don't really envision
any users would want to twiddle this stuff (famous last words).

Anyway, I think sticking this on a feature branch so that a few more
people can give it a go (before merging) would be good.

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no



  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-05-05 11:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-05-04 15:22 1024 file descriptors should be enough for anyone Robert Pluim
2022-05-05  0:55 ` Po Lu
2022-05-05  2:51   ` Po Lu
2022-05-05  7:09   ` Robert Pluim
2022-05-06  8:28     ` Robert Pluim
2022-05-06  8:54       ` Po Lu
2022-05-06  9:02         ` Robert Pluim
2022-05-06  9:28           ` Po Lu
2022-05-06  9:31             ` Robert Pluim
2022-05-06 10:41               ` Po Lu
2022-05-06 12:21                 ` Robert Pluim
2022-05-06 13:04                   ` Po Lu
2022-05-06 13:20                     ` Po Lu
2022-05-06 16:41                       ` Robert Pluim
2022-05-05  2:11 ` Surprisingly high use of file descriptors Stefan Monnier
2022-05-05  7:13   ` Robert Pluim
2022-05-05  7:47     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-05  7:51       ` Robert Pluim
2022-05-05  8:20         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-05  8:25           ` Robert Pluim
2022-05-05 11:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-05-05 12:30   ` 1024 file descriptors should be enough for anyone Robert Pluim
2022-05-05 13:12     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-05 13:45       ` Robert Pluim
2022-05-24 23:50         ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-05-25 15:30           ` Robert Pluim

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