RE: Poll and Select not scaling

David Schwartz (davids@webmaster.com)
Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:41:12 -0800


> I have been trying to increase the scalabilty of an email server that has
> been ported to Linux. It was originally written for Netware, and there we
> are able to provide over 30,000 connections at any given time. On Linux
> however select stops working after the first 1024 connections. I have
> changed include/linux/fs.h and updated NR_FILE to be 81920. In test
> applications I have been able to create well over 30,000 connections but I
> am unable to do either a select or a poll on them. Does any one
> know what I
> can do to fix this?

Multithread.

DS

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