On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, John S. Evans wrote:
> I'm looking for some help/advice with Apache::Request. I'm currently using
> Apache::Request to parse the POST that is used to upload a bunch of files to
> our server.
how many files? what os are you using? solaris has a 256 limit.
> The problem I'm running into is that I seem to be running out of file
> descriptors over a long period of time, if a large number of files (between
> 50 and 200) are posted at once.
there will be an open FILE* for each file uploaded in a given request,
none of which are closed until the request is over. try using lsof to see
if any of them are not being closed after the request is done.