Re: MAX limit of file descriptor

2013-02-12 Thread Peter Teoh
perhaps i can add more info, after doing more investigation: a. ulimit is a shell feature, it is not a command line binary. man bash and man sh and u can see ulimit has different feature available for u. b. ulimit control all the resources defined by the processes spawn from the current

Re: MAX limit of file descriptor

2013-02-12 Thread Peter Teoh
one more: To modify system-wide limits: */etc/security/limits.conf* On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Peter Teoh htmldevelo...@gmail.com wrote: perhaps i can add more info, after doing more investigation: a. ulimit is a shell feature, it is not a command line binary. man bash and man

Re: MAX limit of file descriptor

2013-02-11 Thread Mulyadi Santosa
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:07 AM, horseriver horseriv...@gmail.com wrote: thanks! Actually , my question comes from network performance ,I want to know ,in per second ,the maximum of tcp connections that can be dealed with by my server. AFAIK, the only way to find out is by doing

Re: MAX limit of file descriptor

2013-02-11 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 09 Feb 2013 13:10:47 +0800, horseriver said: In one process ,what is the max number of opening file descriptor ? Can it be set to infinite ? In network programing ,what is the essential for the maximum of connections dealed per second In general, you'll find that

Re: MAX limit of file descriptor

2013-02-11 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 06:07:38 +0800, horseriver said: Actually , my question comes from network performance ,I want to know ,in per second ,the maximum of tcp connections that can be dealed with by my server. That will be *highly* dependent on what your server code does with each

Re: MAX limit of file descriptor

2013-02-11 Thread michi1
Hi! On 14:24 Mon 11 Feb , valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Sat, 09 Feb 2013 13:10:47 +0800, horseriver said: ... In network programing ,what is the essential for the maximum of connections dealed per second ... So the *real* question becomes how many times per second is

Re: MAX limit of file descriptor

2013-02-10 Thread michi1
Hi! On 13:10 Sat 09 Feb , horseriver wrote: hi:) In one process ,what is the max number of opening file descriptor ? Type ulimit -a in your shell. On my system (debian) the default is 1024. Can it be set to infinite ? Maybe, but at least it can be set very high. In network

Re: MAX limit of file descriptor

2013-02-10 Thread Peter Teoh
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 8:29 PM, mic...@michaelblizek.twilightparadox.comwrote: Hi! On 13:10 Sat 09 Feb , horseriver wrote: hi:) In one process ,what is the max number of opening file descriptor ? Type ulimit -a in your shell. On my system (debian) the default is 1024. Hi

Re: MAX limit of file descriptor

2013-02-10 Thread michi1
Hi! On 22:47 Sun 10 Feb , Peter Teoh wrote: On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 8:29 PM, mic...@michaelblizek.twilightparadox.comwrote: Hi! On 13:10 Sat 09 Feb , horseriver wrote: hi:) In one process ,what is the max number of opening file descriptor ? Type ulimit -a in your

Re: MAX limit of file descriptor

2013-02-10 Thread horseriver
thanks! Actually , my question comes from network performance ,I want to know ,in per second ,the maximum of tcp connections that can be dealed with by my server. How can I do the test and calculate the connection number , Is it possible that my server can deal with 10k tcp

MAX limit of file descriptor

2013-02-09 Thread horseriver
hi:) In one process ,what is the max number of opening file descriptor ? Can it be set to infinite ? In network programing ,what is the essential for the maximum of connections dealed per second thanks! ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list

Re: MAX limit of file descriptor

2013-02-09 Thread Peter Teoh
i can only make a general statement, may not be always true/false: in the kernel almost EVERYTHING HAS TO BE FINITEand this is cater for the fact that but at the userspace or application level, u can design structures to be infinite. eg, I used python for large number calculation, and so

Re: MAX limit of file descriptor

2013-02-09 Thread Gaurav Jain
Reference: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man2/setrlimit.2.html On Sat, Feb 9, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Gaurav Jain gjainroor...@gmail.com wrote: I believe you can achieve the 'effect' of setting the maximum number of open file descriptors to 'infinite' by using the following

Re: MAX limit of file descriptor

2013-02-09 Thread Gaurav Jain
I believe you can achieve the 'effect' of setting the maximum number of open file descriptors to 'infinite' by using the following (untested code!): snip #include sys/time.h #include sys/resource.h struct rlimit rlim; rlim.rlim_cur = RLIM_INFINTY; rlim.rlim_max = RLIM_INFINITY; int ret =