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From: Holger Kiehl <Holger.Kiehl@dwd.de>
Subject: Re: running out of file descriptors
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2009 07:07:28 +0000 (GMT)
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On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Bryan Christ wrote:

> Thanks Glynn.
>
> Well according to these values I'm only using about 1500 file
> descriptors out of the 560178.
>
If I remember correctly you are using sockets. How many sockets does
your system have in TIME_WAIT? You can check this with 'netstat -nt|wc -l'.
If you open and close TCP sockets at a high rate you will soon find
that you hit a limit here as well.

Holger