[erlang-questions] Increase the handle limit

[Peer Stritzinger]

On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Joel Reymont <joelr1@REDACTED> wrote:
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> On Oct 21, 2011, at 3:49 PM, Peer Stritzinger wrote:
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>> TL;DR Version: This is not true.  Tested on MacOSX 10.5.8 on PowerPC
>> with Erlang R14B03
>> (used the oldest version of Mac OSX anybody sane would run and the
>> Erlang is also not cutting edge version):
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> Try to open that many sockets.
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> Let us know what happens.

Sorry no time for more experiments at the moment.

OTOH: sockets are also just file descriptors so no other limits apply
for sockets, except you might run out of ephemeral port numbers.

Cheers,
-- Peer


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