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To: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
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Subject: Re: Apache 1.1.3 and 1.2.0 problems under FBSD2.2.2
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On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, John Polstra wrote:

> In article <Pine.BSF.3.95.970620104528.17884E-100000@alive.znep.com>,
> Marc Slemko  <marcs@znep.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Grr.  I thought this had been fixed in FreeBSD, but I guess not.
> > The problem here is that the FILE structure uses only a short for
> > _file, which means it can only handle 255 fds.
> 
> Er ... that's a mighty strange "short" you've got there, if it can only
> hold a number up to 255.  Maybe you should upgrade to a 32-bit machine. :-)

It more sounds like FD_SETSIZE limit. It is why I increase default
FD_SETSIZE to 1024 in -current :-) 

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Andrey A. Chernov
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