On Friday 18 February 2011 21:54:52 Felix E. Klee wrote: > I wrote a daemon for downloading data from web-services using cURL > Multi. The daemon runs on a 32bit Amazon EC2 instance with the Amazon > Linux AMI (CentOS). > > Now, I wonder: How many downloads can be run in parallel? What are the > limiting factors? You can show the soft limit of open file descriptors with 'ulimit -n'
But virtual servers have lower limits (open files/sockets) than the OS could normaly handle. I don't know the limits of EC2, but it should documented somewhere. ------------------------------------------------------------------- List admin: http://cool.haxx.se/list/listinfo/curl-library Etiquette: http://curl.haxx.se/mail/etiquette.html
