From: "Zed A. Shaw" <zedshaw@...>
Date: 2005-05-13T12:49:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Limit of maximal open sockets on debian testing.

You'll also run into a similar limit if you use select for multi-plexing
IO.  Depending on the platform, this may be 256 (BSD?), but usually
1024.

I'm not aware of any standard ulimit modifiers for this as it is
generally a space setting on the fd sets used in select.

Zed

On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 23:35 +0900, Michael Kurz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I use my ruby application as server and it seems that it can only open about
> 1024 sockets (files) at once.
> (linux debian testing)
> 
> How can I change this?
> 
> 
> Regards
> Michael
> 
> 
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