Re: [Boost-users] *NIX: Boost ASIO and file descriptor limits

On Sat, 04 Oct 2008 17:16:04 +0200, Boris wrote:

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I have a question regarding the system limit on a *NIX system for the maximum open file descriptors that a process may have open.

If you were using the boost asio library to design a server application how would you go about and extend the server to handle more than the 1024 file descriptor limit.

I think the 1024 file descriptor limit is only a problem if you use select(). Depending on your operating system it should be possible to raise the per-process limit. If you use then an I/O service based on poll() or epoll() I would assume this limit goes away.

Etienne, this link might also help you: http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html#limits.filehandles Boris