dccm failure under load

Gary Mills mills@cc.UManitoba.CA
Sun, 5 Jan 2003 20:12:26 -0600


On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 04:47:34PM -0700, Vernon Schryver wrote:
> > From: Gary Mills <mills@cc.UManitoba.CA>
> 
> > 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'?
> 
> What if the current limit in nofile.rlim_cur is more than about 412?

Sorry, I haven't read the code that carefully.  The default limit in
recent versions of Solaris should be 256.  This is to avoid problems
in the stdio library.  Processes that need more than that are supposed
to raise the limit themselves.

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