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To: Nguyen-Tuong Long Le <le@cs.unc.edu>
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Subject: Re: FD_SETSIZE
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Nguyen-Tuong Long Le wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am wondering what is the side effects of increasing FD_SETSIZE
> beyond 1024? Our group have a propiertary web server software that
> handles a large number of sockets. While increasing the kern.maxfiles
> and kern.maxfilesperproc gives our web server more connections,
> select() seems to fail if the descriptor is beyond 1024.
> 
> Can I just increase FD_SETSIZE and recompile the kernel? I saw
> some magic numbers in kern/sys_generic.c and am not sure whether
> there are some side effects.
> 
> Thanks,
> Long
> 
> P.S. Please kindly email me because I am not in the list.
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it can be extended safely, but you'll get better performance if you 
write a version for FreeBSD to use kqueue instead..

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