On Apr 1, 2011, at 1:43 PM, Piotr Szturmaj wrote: > Sean Kelly wrote: >> Fair enough. Though I'd still say it's a terrible use of resources, > > given available asynchronous socket APIs. And as an aside, >> I think 32K sockets per process is not at all surprising. > > I've seen apps that use orders of magnitude more than that, though >> breaking the 64K barrier does get a bit weird. > > Breaking that barrier requires more than one IP address :)
That's why it gets weird :-)