emfile error.

[Serge Aleynikov]

There have been multiple posts regarding this on the mailing list (you 
can do a search on "ulimit").  There is an OS limit of the number of 
file descriptors (default 1024) that can be increased with "ulimit -n 
NEW_LIMIT" before starting the emulator.

Serge

luvish satija wrote:
> Hi all,
>  
> I'm running an erlang server which accepts tcp
> connections from clients and in turn spawns a new
> process for every new connection to handle it.
> 
> To test its capability, I run a Client process which
> can spawn any number of baby-clients. So i choose
> 10000. Now the problem is that after nearabout 1020
> clients, I start getting the "emfile" error and this
> occurs on both sides i.e. client and server side.
> 
> Previously I was getting "enfile" error which I fixed
> by setting ERL_MAX_PORTS to 10000. I expected that
> this should solve the problem, but it went futile.
> 
> I am a newbie to erlang, so I'm not able to figure out
> if i'm doing any silly mistake. Any kind of relevant
> guidance would really help me.
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Luvish Satija