Re: Opening more than 65000 sockets

["Nivedita Singhvi" <nivedita@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>> I start another client on System A and tell it to connect
>> to 10.10.14.197 port 443.  This client is also told to
>> open 50K sockets.  At ~12K sockets it fails.

> What fails? Is it the socket() call? What error does it fail
> with? For instance,  is it failing with a ENOBUFS or
> ENOMEM? EAGAIN, ETIMEDOUT? What kind of socket: TCP or UDP?
> (TCP, I assume, but neednt be). Have you bumped up limits
> like /proc/sys/fs/inode_max, file-max? System wide, ulimit?

You dont mention which kernel version youre using, but on a
recent kernel you wont need inode-max, think that went away
sometime in 2.4.

thanks,
Nivedita