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A couple technical questions regarding Linux have come up on a project I'm working on (using RedHat 7.1) and I was wondering if anyone here either had the answers or could point me to a resource to find them. 1] What is the default and theoretical maximum number of processes that you can run at once? 2] What is the theoretical maximum number of sockets that a single process can listen and respond on? The two, as you might imagine, are connected. I need to respond to possible input from up to a thousand different ports, and spawning a process to listen on each isn't working - probably too many processes. But if I have a program listen on 10 sockets, can I respond fast enough? How about 100? All the sockets won't be in use at the same time, but I never know which ones exactly are needed. Perhaps I need to do something like inetd, and just listen on a bunch of sockets and spawn off the process to handle the input when needed? Thanks for any advice and/or web resources you can point me to. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold at buddydog.org) Amazing Developments http://www.buddydog.org It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so. Mark Twain
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