Re: 1000 socket connections send GC in an infinite loop

Martin Rydstr|m wrote:

>"Chaitanya Gupta" <[email protected]> writes:
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>>So its a cmucl problem? i.e. too many open sockets (1000 in my case),
>>or is it something else?
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>I think it's a more general problem; most unixes don't handle more
>than about 1000 open fd's well with select. (At least I /think/
>that's the problem.)
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>',mr
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That limit can be adjusted with the ulimit command in (in bash, limit in 
tcsh). For

% ulimit -n  # prints the maximal number of open files
1024

% ulimit -n 4096 #sets the maximal number of files to 4096