dccm failure under load

On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 01:26:27PM -0700, Vernon Schryver wrote:
> > From: Gary Mills <mills@cc.UManitoba.CA>
> 
> >         i = max_work*2+EXTRA_FILES;
> >         old_rlim_cur = nofile.rlim_cur;
> >         if (old_rlim_cur < i) {
> >                 nofile.rlim_cur = i;
> >                 if (0 > setrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE, &nofile)) {
> 
> Yes, that is bogus code for increasing the kernel's FD limit if you use
> an explicit `dccm -j` value instead of using the max_work limit
> inferred from the kernels' FD limit.   I'll fix it in 1.1.18.

It looks to me as if it always sets the file descriptor limit.
If `-j' is not used, doesn't it use the default `max_work = 200'?

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