From: jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk (Mike Jagdis) Subject: file table overflow in 0.99p4 Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1993 23:29:00 +0000
* In message <C24nuB.DzG@hip-hop.uucp>, David Black said:
DB> I'm seeing a lot of "file table overflow" messages in 0.99p4
DB> when things get busy, esp. news unbatching.
DB> Is there a fix for this? Help!
Yeah, I know the problem. Fire up a few Xterms, start a compile or three, in
comes the news and... BUGGER!
I have patches against 99p4 that change the file and inode tables from
static arrays to linked lists allocated as needed using kmalloc. They
haven't damaged my system for at least a week now so if you're brave...
Since they aren't bug fixes I've hung on to them so far. I'd rather 1.00
came out sometime this year :-).
Mike