sockets limits

[Jdamian]

The number of sockets that a process may create is limited by any kernel parameter or by other kind of parameter ?

[Sam Nicholls · Accepted solution]

Socket descriptors count as a file descriptor. The sum of open socket descriptors and file descriptors cannot exceed the "maxfile" kernel tunable. The default for maxfile is 60.

-sam

[Jdamian]

' cannot exceed the "maxfile" kernel parameter '

or the customable limit set by shell. This is done by "ulimit -n" internal command of Posix shell.