On Wed 2014-07-30 16:40:52, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > 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. Agreed. On the other hand, keeping a fd open is quite tricky for a library. But better solution might be to make that easier. open( , O_IM_A_LIBRARY_GIVE_ME_ONE_OF_THREE_RESERVED_FDS) might be one solution. Actually, one reserved fd should be enough. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-crypto" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
