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From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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<<On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 14:18:31 -0600 (CST), Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> said:

> We still need to cap the number of sockets somehow, as it would be bad for
> sockets to consume all memory.

There's already a cap: maxfiles.

-GAWollman


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