On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 09:43:50AM +0100, Gisle Sælensminde wrote: > Martin Rydstr|m wrote: > >"Chaitanya Gupta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>So its a cmucl problem? i.e. too many open sockets (1000 in my case), > >>or is it something else?
> >I think it's a more general problem; most unixes don't handle more > >than about 1000 open fd's well with select. (At least I /think/ > >that's the problem.) > That limit can be adjusted with the ulimit command in (in bash, limit in > tcsh). For > > % ulimit -n # prints the maximal number of open files > 1024 > > % ulimit -n 4096 #sets the maximal number of files to 4096 That changes the maximum number of open files; it doesn't change how well select handles a set of files, when there are many, if I have understood it all correctly. ',mr -- [Emacs] is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful. -- Neal Stephenson, _In the Beginning was the Command Line_
