socket: Too many open files (24) apache bench ligh

Question

When I start Apache Bench test:

ab -n 10000 -c 1300 http://domain.com/test.php

I get error:

socket: Too many open files (24)

When i change to '-c 1000' it works fine.

Because I can have more than 1000 concurrent users I would like to fix socket too many open files problem or increase parameter. How to do this and where?

I use lighttpd on centos 5.

Answer 1

ulimit -n 10000

That might not work depending on you system configuration Consult this to configure your system.

Answer 2

to permernent change max opened files limit, you should modify /etc/security/limits.conf and reboot system:

echo -ne " 
* soft nofile 65536 
* hard nofile 65536 
" >>/etc/security/limits.conf 

Answer 3

Check out the documentation for lighty. You might have to set the server.max-fds option. Also server.max-connections should be changed accordingly (again, see the documentation).