On Mit, 2014-07-30 at 07:56 -0600, Bob Beck wrote:

Pavel. I have bit 'ol enterprise daemon running with established file
descriptors serving thousands of connections
which periodically require entropy.  Now I run out of descriptors. I
can't establish new connections. but I should
now halt all the other ones that require entropy?  I should raise
SIGKILL on my process serving these thousands
of connetions?  I don't think so.

If that long-running daemon periodically needs something from a device,
one would better keep the fd for that open the whole time. Saves some
CPU cycles and latency too BTW.

	Bernd
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