* Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [080911 09:20]: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 02:36:55AM +0100, Andy Armstrong wrote: > > printf( "%d\n", FD_SETSIZE ); > > The output is 1024, but I'm not convinced the problem lies in this area.
See http://blogs.sun.com/elving/entry/too_many_open_files Do you have perl compiled as 32bit or 64bit? It wouldn't wonder me if Solaris lied to Perl about the max number of file-descriptors. > We have just moved from under 128 files per select to just over, but I > don't think this is the problem. Additionally, the system will seem to > work fine for many Gb of data before this problem is (seemingly > randonly) triggered. Clients address your service via sockets which count as file-descriptors as well. It is not only a limit on what you can pass with select(): the whole sum of pipes and sockets over all threads within one process can not exceed 256. (At least, that is my interpretation of the docs) -- Regards, MarkOv ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mark Overmeer MSc MARKOV Solutions [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://Mark.Overmeer.net http://solutions.overmeer.net