Comment 25 for bug 717345

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On 2/17/2011 2:02 PM, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:37:08 -0000, John A Meinel <email address hidden> wrote:
>> We talked about increasing the number of file handles, but when wgrant
>> tested that on his machine, it caused problems because 'select' doesn't
>> like more than 1024 handles, and python has some internal MAX_FD set, etc.
>
> If we're close to the select() limit in production, we should probably
> be using a different reactor *anyway*.
>
> This translates to passing -r poll or -r epoll to twistd, so I think it
> would be something the losas need to change in an init script. And test
> on staging first, etc etc.
>
> Cheers,
> mwh
>

Or end-run around it and go with haproxy load between multiple instances
and cap their concurrent requests to about 100 or so. Which has a lot of
other benefits.

John
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