On Thu, 8 Dec 2011, Matthew Ford wrote:

> Actually, I think I spoke to soon. I'm now getting results, but the
> performance is much slower once we reach 1024 hostnames. I have ulimit -n =
> 65535, and if I grep FDSize /proc/<PID>/status I get 2048 returned after we
> reach 1024 hostnames queried. Are there other limits I might be running in
> to?

If you're still using select(), you need to do compile-time tweaks so that
fd_set() and friends still work and don't access data out of boundary.

Also, at that amount of descriptors I suspect that you may start seeing some
speed penalty from using select().

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