On 20 Mar, 17:44, John Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When you ask questions like this, please specify what > operating system you're using. Thanks.
That was a Linux Ubuntu 6.10. I submitted a bug report on sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1685000&group_id=5470&atid=105470 Alex Martelli wrote: > A shell command > ulimit -Hn > should report on the hard-limit of the number of open file descriptors; > just ulimit -n should report on the current soft-limit. Thank you, I'll try it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list