Re: context queue limit.

Hi,

On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 03:53:32AM -0000, Mathew Pham wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi, 
> I was just playing around with context queues, and notice I can't
> add more then 1021 context's in a queue.  Can someone confirm this
> for me, just in case it's on system setup related.  I've tested this
> in Redhat 9, 7.3 and Suse 8.0.  same thing occurs.  I use
> "icmp_echo_cq.c" as the testing method.
> 
> This is the error I get when I try to add 1022 contextes:
> 
> libnet_init() failed: libnet_select_device(): ifaddrlist : socket: Too many open files

Context queue is implemanted as a list, so there is no such limit.

In fact, the limit you are reaching is a "process limit" as you cant
open more than 1024 file descriptors per process in most Linux configuration.

See getrlimit() man page for RLIMIT_NOFILE resource.

	Fred Raynal