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Re: Maximum number of sockets
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Re: Maximum number of sockets


  • Subject: Re: Maximum number of sockets
  • From: "Matt Slot" <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 16:32:34 -0400

Eric Arlotti (email@hidden) wrote:
>Is there a limitation in the number of sockets (BSD or OpenTransport)
>that a Mac OS X application can open simultaneously ? sysctl says
>kern.ipc.maxsockets=512 : is this the limit ? And is there a way to
>increase this limit (OS X refuses to change kern.ipc.maxsockets) ?

This is a pretty good site that discusses managing a server with lots
of clients. There's nothing OSX specific, but it will at least explain
what some of the problems are:

http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html

Matt

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