On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Joe Damato <ice799@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Bryan Christ <bryan.christ@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> I am writing a multi-threaded application which services hundreds of >> remote connections for data transfer. Several instances of this >> program are run simultaneously. The problem is that whenever the >> total number of active user connections (cumulative total of all open >> sockets tallied from all process instances) reaches about 700 the It seems that would be the same as setting RLIMIT_NOFILE via setrlimt() or the same as using the userspace tool "ulimit -n". Am I wrong? Isn't this the same? >> system appears to run out of file descriptors. I have tried raising >> the open files limit via "ulimit -n" and by using the setrlimit() >> facility. Neither of these seem to help. I am currently having to >> limit the number of processes running on the system to 2 instances >> allowing no more than 256 connections each. > > Have you tried editing /etc/security/limits.conf (or equivalent file > on your system) to increase the max number of open files? > > perhaps something like: > * - nofile 524288 > > is what you want? > > joe > -- Bryan <>< -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
