On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 11:45 AM, John Tamplin <j...@google.com> wrote: > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Simon Pieters <sim...@opera.com> wrote: >> >> From our testing it seems that Vista has a limit of 1398 open sockets. >> Apparently Ubuntu has a limit of 1024 file descriptors per process. > > On Linux, that is just the default (which may vary between distros) and can > be configured by the administrator -- see ulimit -n, sysctl -w fs.file-max, > and fs.file-max in /etc/sysctl.conf (location may var between Linux > distros).
I think it is reasonable to assume that the browser must be able to operate effectively within those default limits, though: mostly the browser can't adjust those, or usefully instruct the user to do so. Mike