Re: running out of file descriptors

Holger Kiehl <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-c-programming
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Bryan Christ wrote:

> Thanks Glynn.
>
> Well according to these values I'm only using about 1500 file
> descriptors out of the 560178.
>
If I remember correctly you are using sockets. How many sockets does
your system have in TIME_WAIT? You can check this with 'netstat -nt|wc -l'.
If you open and close TCP sockets at a high rate you will soon find
that you hit a limit here as well.

Holger
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