[erlang-questions] Increase the handle limit

[Jon Watte]

FD_SETSIZE is 64 on Windows, probably because that is the limit for
efficient implementation of select() using MsgWaitForMultipleObjectsEx().
However, all efficient I/O on Windows uses I/O completion ports, which are a
lot more efficient than select() (more like epoll on Linux). I imagine
Erlang uses IOCP as well on Windows, but I don't know for sure.

The erl environment has various "raise these limits" options. We start ours
with something like:
-env ERL_MAX_PORTS 200500
+P 1001001
This lets us spawn over a million processes and open two hundred thousand
sockets and files. (The machine itself also has increased the ulimit for the
number of file descriptors)

Hope this helps!

Sincerely,

jw



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On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 12:35 AM, Joel Reymont <joelr1@REDACTED> wrote:

> I don't think you can.
>
> I bump against this all the time on the Mac.
>
> Erlang uses the FD_SETSIZE setting from the system header files when
> compiled, normally 1024.
>
> Editing this value and re-compiling Erlang causes epmd to stop working.
>
> My solution is to save the old epmd and recompile after editing the system
> header files.
>
> On Oct 21, 2011, at 7:25 AM, Martin Dimitrov wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I am developing on a Windows 7 machine, Erlang R14B04. The limit of open
> > handles seems to be 1200. But this is not imposed by the operating
> > system (Windows has a hard coded limit of 16 million handles). So my
> > question is how can I increase the handle limit in Erlang?
>
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