linux-kernel - Re: epoll behaviour after running out of descriptors

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Date:	Sun, 2 Nov 2008 19:33:00 +0100
From:	"Olaf van der Spek" <olafvdspek@...il.com>
To:	"Davide Libenzi" <davidel@...ilserver.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: epoll behaviour after running out of descriptors

On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 7:25 PM, Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org> wrote:
> A bug? For starters, epoll_wait does NOT create new files, so no EMFILE
> can come out from there.

It's accept that returns EMFILE.

> You are saturating the port space, and your whole code logic is rather (at
> least) buggy. Try a `netstat -n -t | grep TIME_WAIT | wc -l`

What makes you think I'm saturating the port space?
That space is way bigger than 1 k AFAIK.

EMFILE The per-process limit of open file descriptors has been reached.

And what part of my code logic is buggy?

Olaf
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