Skip Ford wrote: Here's a DragonFly port of Tim Robbins' FreeBSD port of Niels Provos' NetBSD file descriptor allocation code. . .. fd Unpatched Patched 1 0.765650 0.781279 2001 1.148484 0.789092 4001 1.546935 0.765657 . .. 48001 12.453618 0.812530 Is there a down-side to this?