Re: Opening 5000 file descriptors in linux??

Matti Aarnio (matti.aarnio@sonera.fi)
Tue, 30 Mar 1999 17:08:07 +0300 (EEST)


...
> At last i used a combination of the two, so each thread works with about
> 20 socket descriptors, and this works amazingly well. (thanks to all you
> linux hackers).
>
> The only problem i have now is, i cannot open more than aproximately 1000
> sockets even with the Alan Series. (and fiddling with echo xxx > /proc/...)

If you don't have glibc 2.1, and aren't already using poll(),
then the thing you refer at is very likely to occur.

> maby i have to recompile the glibc
> Gerold

/Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@sonera.fi>

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