Still much more than 350 sockets needed!

Thomas M Steenholdt tmus at tmus.dk
Wed Apr 26 08:47:59 UTC 2006


Wiese, Hendrik wrote:
> Hello again,
>  
> we still need to know how to increase the maximum number of
> possible open sockets per IP address! Here we got the problem
> that no more than 350 sockets are possible. On another Linux
> (based on LFS) it is no problem to open far more than 5.000
> connections on the same way. So we know that it is possible.
> So how can we break this limitation? Some kind of sysctl?
> Kernel patch needed? Anything else?
>  
> It's urgent, so any kind of help would be greatly appreciated.
>  
> Thanks a lot!!!
>  
> regards,
> H. Wiese
> 

My /proc/net/sockstat says that i have 541 used sockets on a standard 
laptop???

could you a simplified version of the code to create all these sockets 
the way you do it?

That would allow perhaps more people to understand the problem/see for 
themselves.

/Thomas




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