Patch: FYI: gcj3.1 status update

Fri Apr 5 10:19:00 GMT 2002

Jeff Sturm writes:
 > On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Andrew Haley wrote:
 > > I'm pretty sure that it is an issue, because the Linux kernel
 > > engineers told me that they'd had to increase the number of available
 > > file handles "because of Java servers." Now, I'm guessing that this
 > > is the cause, but it looks like a good candidate.
 > 
 > They must be talking about per-process, not system-wide handles.
Right.
 > It just so happens that few people attempted to run multithreaded servers
 > on Linux before java came along. And then there are artificial benchmarks
 > like VolanoMark.
 > 
 > We've had to run our servers with "ulimit -n 1024". Empirically, that
 > seems to be plenty for us, even with high transaction volumes.
Okay, but not all unices support this.
 > Come to think of it... why couldn't the FileDescriptor::open code
 > in libgcj attempt to call setrlimit as well as run finalizers
 > before it gives up?
I don't suppose it would hurt, but it's not portable.
Andrew.