Re: 1000 socket connections send GC in an infinite loop

On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 09:43:50AM +0100, Gisle Sælensminde wrote:
> Martin Rydstr|m wrote:
> >"Chaitanya Gupta" <[email protected]> writes:
> >>So its a cmucl problem? i.e. too many open sockets (1000 in my case),
> >>or is it something else?

> >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.)

> 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

That changes the maximum number of open files; it doesn't change how
well select handles a set of files, when there are many, if I have
understood it all correctly.

',mr

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