[Webware-discuss] File descriptor exhaustion issue under Solaris

[Ken L. <ke...@to...>]

I've been fiddling with httperf
(http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/David_Mosberger/httperf.html),
a web server performance measurement tool.
As I cranked up the request rate against my Webware site,
ThreadedAppServer ran out of open file descriptors, and died.

The default Solaris open file limit is 64, an absurdly small number.
I increased it to 1024 (Linux's default) by adding "ulimit -n 1024"
to the AppServer script.  Other Webware+Solaris people may want
to do likewise.