Subject: Re: Bad file descriptor
To: Kelley Reynolds <schnozzy@verbotenplanet.net>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/12/2001 11:03:46
On 12/12/01 10:52 AM, "Kelley Reynolds" <schnozzy@verbotenplanet.net> wrote:

> I'm running 1.5.2 on a pentium 166 with 64 megs of ram. When I run 'ab', an
> apache benchmark utility with 61 concurrent connections, it benchmarks just
> fine. If I run it with 62 concurrent connections, it says 'bad file
> descriptor'. I didn't see anything in sysctl that seemed relevant, and my
> kern.maxproc=532. Any way to increase the number of concurrent connections
> possible?

By default, the limit on file descriptors is 64.  Use limit/ulimit to up
your limit.
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