Thomas M Steenholdt writes:
Andrew Haley wrote:
> Wiese, Hendrik writes:
> > >
> > > > Hello again,
> > > >
> > > > we still need to know how to increase the maximum number of
> > > > possible open sockets per IP address! Here we got the problem
> > > > that no more than 350 sockets are possible. On another Linux
> > > > (based on LFS) it is no problem to open far more than 5.000
> > > > connections on the same way. So we know that it is possible.
> > > > So how can we break this limitation? Some kind of sysctl?
> > > > Kernel patch needed? Anything else?
> > > >
> > > > It's urgent, so any kind of help would be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Please try to open that many tcp connections between two IPs and tell me
> > if it works!
>
> Try it yourself. I reckon you'll run out of file descriptors before
> you hit a socket limit. To do any more you'll have to fork() in the
> server and client.
Well...
I get way past 350 with these two test processes...
Got to 1020, then the process bailed with :
No socket: Too many open files
So, there you go. Whoever said that no more than 350 sockets are
possible was mistaken. :-)
Andrew.