hi, there!

On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 09:30:33PM -0400, Nguyen-Tuong Long Le wrote:

> 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.

you don't need to recompile kernel. just recompile your web server
software with -DFD_SETSIZE=xxx

/fjoe

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