On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:23:39PM +0200, Mark Overmeer wrote: [...] > Clients address your service via sockets which count as file-descriptors > as well. It is not only a limit on what you can pass with select(): the > whole sum of pipes and sockets over all threads within one process can not > exceed 256. (At least, that is my interpretation of the docs)
The clients are presumably in a different process, otherwise why would one bother with IPC in the first place? The system-wide limit on open file descriptors is possibly worth checking though.
