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by vlovich123 911 days ago
The number of file descriptors you can have open by a single program is limited and eats up kernel resources.
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ajross 911 days ago
Even for a torrent client, the number of active file descriptors is a function of the number of peer connections (e.g. a few dozen). It doesn't scale with the size of the output file.
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vlovich123 911 days ago
Think databases like RocksDB not torrents.
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