On Mit, 2014-07-30 at 07:56 -0600, Bob Beck wrote:
> Pavel. I have bit 'ol enterprise daemon running with established file
> descriptors serving thousands of connections
> which periodically require entropy. Now I run out of descriptors. I
> can't establish new connections. but I should
> now halt all the other ones that require entropy? I should raise
> SIGKILL on my process serving these thousands
> of connetions? I don't think so.
If that long-running daemon periodically needs something from a device,
one would better keep the fd for that open the whole time. Saves some
CPU cycles and latency too BTW.
Bernd
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