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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Is there a limit to create sockets on UNIX??
Message-ID: <3760@auspex.auspex.com>
Date: 26 Jul 90 20:41:57 GMT
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>	Sounds like a filesystem limitation.  If you are using UNIX
>	family sockets it actually writes to file space and this causes
>	a file to be opened.  Thus you may have to many open files.

Nope.  "Too many open files" really means "too many open file
descriptors in this process"; a socket in any family uses a file
descriptor, so switching to another family won't help.

>	Just a suggestion.  Also you can check so see if a process
>	can increase the the number of files it can have open on your
>	system.

Yup, the per-process file descriptor limit is the problem.  This limit
varies from 20 to 64 to 256 in some systems.