On Thu, Mar 29, 2012, Andres Perera wrote: >> Maybe you could also close some of those 999 keep-alive sessions and >> pre-load sessions you have open and retry. Seriously why does a >> webbrowser need 1024 file descriptors to be open at the same time? >> Are you concurrently reading 500 homepages? > > you are not expected to read 500 homepages at the same time, but you > *are* expected to switch to any tab at any time, and the price of a > system call to reopen the pertaining file descriptors is unacceptable
What retarded browser are you using that needs to reopen file descriptors to switch tabs? And what retarded OS are you running where system calls are so expensive they're user noticable?
