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The number of file descriptors you can have open by a single program is limited and eats up kernel resources.


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.


Think databases like RocksDB not torrents.




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