Re: 1000 socket connections send GC in an infinite loop

"Chaitanya Gupta" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.cmucl.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 9/13/06, Alex McGuire <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> IIRC the command 'ulimit' manages the maximum number of fd's on linux.
> 'ulimit unlimited' does what it says.
>

On our system,
% ulimit -n
1024

So its quite possible that this is the problem, but


On 9/13/06, Martin Rydstr|m <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 09:43:50AM +0100, Gisle Sælensminde wrote:
> > 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.

So even increasing this limit may not solve it? Is there any fix?

Thanks,
Chaitanya
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