too many close calls for non-opened fds

Rick Jones rick.jones2 at hp.com
Wed Aug 23 02:41:42 EST 2006


> Actually that was a mistake on my part. When -r option is used the close 
> call occurs only during startup and not for every connection. During startup 
> with -r option we get around 60K close calls.
> We are about to do a fix for this issue on HP-UX (without -r option). The 
> approach is to find out the open fds and close the unwanted ones. Will this 
> be a valid approach.

I would think that the overhead of determining if an FD is open wouldn't 
be that far off from closing it.

rick jones



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