[chatmasta]

The classic scaling problem! Justin.tv faced the same one. [0]

> "a sign behind Emmett’s desk read “HAVE YOU CHECKED THE FILE DESCRIPTOR LIMITS?”

Side note... does anyone know why the default FD limit is so low at 1024 on most machines? It seems like there's very little cost to changing it to a high value (e.g. 65535).

[0] http://justinkan.com/three-stories

[Isamu]

That is a classic. I would think the default is just an old vestige of mesozoic machine limitations. And its not like everybody is scaling up, most of the time it is indicative of a leak, and you would be happy to get the heads up.