Re: 1000 socket connections send GC in an infinite loop

Martin Rydstr|m wrote:
> "Chaitanya Gupta" <[email protected]> writes:
>   
>> So even increasing this limit may not solve it? Is there any fix?
>>     
>
> This is really beyond my competence level, but I don't think there's
> an easy fix; FD_SETSIZE is rather low-level, if it is indeed what is
> causing your performance problem.
>
> The easiest way might be to change whatever you're using to use poll
> rather than select; this might be a rather intrusive change to CMUCL,
> or (pretty much) a reimplementation of the machinery.
>
> But, as I said, this is beyond what I actually know much about, and
> into the realm of vaguely recalled comments and conjecture.
>
>   
Well, its way beyond what I know about. Too little I know about Unix land.
> However, if it was just bumping into the limit, I believe you would
> get an error message that you can't open a new socket, containing
> something about "too many open files".
>   
I didn't see any such message in the logs. As I said, the GC just went 
into an infinite loop.
Anyway, since the change to http-get, its ok for now. The traffic is 
quite low. We will check whether bumping the limit up works or not.

Thanks,
Chaitanya