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What does "LIMITS for file descriptors changed" mean?

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Created On: 29 Nov 1997 4:35 pm
Last Edited: 22 Oct 1999 12:26 pm

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On a Unix system a message like "LIMITS for file descriptors changed to 128" may appear in the log file.

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This is not an error, and merely indicates that this Web Crossing activity is seeing a high number of simultaneous connections. Connections are increased 64 at a time, so this particular message just means that there were more than about 45 sockets in use (about 15 sockets are used for the database, stdin/out, etc.).