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		gpderetta on Nov 13, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Way too many ways to wait on a child process with ... One issue is that fds are a relatively limited and relatively heavyweight resource.

akira2501 on Nov 14, 2024 [–]

They used to be.

    $ cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max
    3235242

And `nr_open` has been 1048576 for a long time. The default quota limit is 1024 but that is easy to change.

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