// Copyright 2018 The go-ethereum Authors // This file is part of the go-ethereum library. // // The go-ethereum library is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify // it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by // the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or // (at your option) any later version. // // The go-ethereum library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, // but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of // MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the // GNU Lesser General Public License for more details. // // You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License // along with the go-ethereum library. If not, see . package fdlimit import "errors" // Raise tries to maximize the file descriptor allowance of this process // to the maximum hard-limit allowed by the OS. func Raise(max uint64) error { // This method is NOP by design: // * Linux/Darwin counterparts need to manually increase per process limits // * On Windows Go uses the CreateFile API, which is limited to 16K files, non // changeable from within a running process // This way we can always "request" raising the limits, which will either have // or not have effect based on the platform we're running on. if max > 16384 { return errors.New("file descriptor limit (16384) reached") } return nil } // Current retrieves the number of file descriptors allowed to be opened by this // process. func Current() (int, error) { // Please see Raise for the reason why we use hard coded 16K as the limit return 16384, nil } // Maximum retrieves the maximum number of file descriptors this process is // allowed to request for itself. func Maximum() (int, error) { return Current() }