Re: [Libevent-users] Stop listening on http server when accept() returns Too Many Open Files

[Simon Perreault <simon.perreault@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Does anyone have an answer to that? We just hit this problem in real
life. It's not just theory.

Thanks,
Simon

On 2010-09-03 03:49, Yee Keat Phuah wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am using the http server part of libevent 2.0.6, and currently testing
> it under all sorts of situation. One of the situation I ran into is when
> there are too many connections, there might be "Too Many Open Files"
> returned from the accept() call, that is ok, but the problem is because
> in listener.c:listener_read_cb() function, there's no way I could
> intercept this error message, and maybe stop accepting new connections,
> what happen subsequently is that event_sock_warn just gets called
> thousands of time.
> 
> Is there a way that I can intercept this error and act accordingly?
> Probably stop listening for a while?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Cheers,
> Phuah Yee Keat


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