[Haskell-cafe] FreeBSD: Max # of sockets opened

[Joel Reymont]

Folks,

I need some help from those of you with a FreeBSD box.

It looks like 'ulimit -n' on FreeBSD lets you have 10k+ file  
descriptors open per process. FD_SETSIZE is 1024 in the system  
headers, though. GHC relies on this value (see ghc/rts/Select.c).

Normally, you will get the EMFILE error if you try to open more  
sockets than what is allowed with 'ulimit -n'. If you allow yourself  
more than 1024 descriptors per process then you do not get this error  
but...

This seems to lead to a situation where you open more than 1024  
sockets and shortly afterwards get 'connection resets' for some or  
all of your sockets. Maybe just those above 1024, I have not  
determined this precisely.

My question is this: is it possible to get a higher number of open  
sockets by editing the system header files on FreeBSD and recompiling  
GHC? Has anyone tried this before? How high can you go?

	Thanks, Joel

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