re: socket problem

[Dan Kegel]

> Is it possible to increase the maximum sockets that can be opened
> simultaneously?
> I'd like it to reach 1024, is it possible?
> 
>     I'm currently doing a stress test on postgres. we created a dummy
> client that would connect to it 1024 times. But is just stops at 324,
> postgres reports : " postmaster: StreamConnection: accept: Too many open
> files in system".
> 
>     I don't think the problem is not with the file descriptors. Is it
> the max num of sockets?
> or maybe the maximum number of files that can be opened?

see http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html#limits.filehandles

You may need to raise ulimit, or perhaps /proc/sys/fs/file-max
- Dan

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