From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 17:41:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 17:41:18 -0500 Received: from oldftp.webmaster.com ([209.10.218.74]:39649 "EHLO shell.webmaster.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 11 Jan 2001 17:41:13 -0500 From: "David Schwartz" To: "Micah Gorrell" , Subject: RE: Poll and Select not scaling Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 14:41:12 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <000401c07b5c$08d924b0$9b2f4189@angelw2k> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I have been trying to increase the scalabilty of an email server that has > been ported to Linux. It was originally written for Netware, and there we > are able to provide over 30,000 connections at any given time. On Linux > however select stops working after the first 1024 connections. I have > changed include/linux/fs.h and updated NR_FILE to be 81920. In test > applications I have been able to create well over 30,000 connections but I > am unable to do either a select or a poll on them. Does any one > know what I > can do to fix this? Multithread. DS - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/