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Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 14:39:07 +0100
From: =?UTF-8?B?Sm9zZSBHb256w6FsZXo=?= <jose.gonzalez@psa.es>
Subject: Re: socketpair - too many open files
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Alan Cox wrote:

>On Iau, 2006-01-05 at 13:21 +0100, Jose González wrote:
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>
>>Hello.
>>I am programming an application that need to create over 300 threads. 
>>Each thread calls socketpair function, but it returns EMFILE when it is 
>>called 150 times. Which kernel parameter can I change to do it?
>>    
>>
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>Its a user space matter. See "ulimit -a" and find out how your
>distribution sets the default limits
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I modified this limit (open files, ulimit -n), even I have modified it 
in the kernel sources. I think that open file number isn't the problem.
Is there a limit in the open sockets?