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From: "David Reid" <david@jetnet.co.uk>
To: <dev@httpd.apache.org>, <trawick@attglobal.net>
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Subject: Re: Apache MPMs comparing new fds with FD_SETSIZE,
 APR's ability to wait for i/o on socket
Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2003 16:44:41 -0000
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> Currently when Apache httpd accepts a new connection via APR, it compares
the
> fd with FD_SETSIZE and bombs if fd >= FD_SETSIZE.
>
> The limited value of this check is on platforms such as OS X < 10.3 with
no
> poll(), where APR has to use select().  Unfortunately, use 1K threads with
> worker MPM on Solaris or some other platform with relatively small
*default*
> FD_SETSIZE and you'll start hitting meaningless FD_SETSIZE errors before
you
> get the 1K threads busy talking to clients.  (APR doesn't use select() on
> Solaris anyway, so the FD_SETSIZE check is not helpful.)
>
> For APR 1.0, I think it would be better for APR to handle this to the
greatest
> extent so that APR apps don't have to worry about whether or not APR uses
select().

This seems entirely sensible :)

david