[whatwg] WebSockets: what to do when there are too many open connections

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Mike Shaver <mike.shaver at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have to admit, I'd be a little surprised (I think pleasantly, but
> maybe not) if I could open ten thousand file descriptors on the latest
> shipping Windows CE, or for that matter on an iPhone.

ulimit -n tells me I can only open 1024 per process on my desktop and
server Linux machines.  Actually, I had to configure lighttpd on my
server to raise its max file descriptors to 4096 to make sure it could
handle all my keepalive connections (although maybe it could have
anyway).

Received on Thursday, 13 May 2010 12:23:52 UTC