From: Qi Lu Date: 2009-05-08T00:35:13+09:00 Subject: Too many open files I am writing an application server using TCP server which can only accept upto 249 client connections. After that, I get 'Error: Too many open files..'. I run my server in Windows XP. Windows XP has a limit of 255 files opened by any process, including stdin, stdout and stderr. I googled for how to increase the limit, and have not found a solution other than: 1. modify main.c and call _setmaxstdio(n), which need recompile ruby; 2. use Win32 API to accept connection. I noticed that there are so many people post this problem but their limits are different, some people have 512, some have 1024. looks like this number is configurable. my machine is set to 255 which is way too low. I can run multiple processes to get around this problem, but not 23 process to support 5000 connections. Anything I can do to fix this? Thanks in ahead. Qi -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.