Folks, I need some help from those of you with a FreeBSD box. It looks like 'ulimit -n' on FreeBSD lets you have 10k+ file descriptors open per process. FD_SETSIZE is 1024 in the system headers, though. GHC relies on this value (see ghc/rts/Select.c). Normally, you will get the EMFILE error if you try to open more sockets than what is allowed with 'ulimit -n'. If you allow yourself more than 1024 descriptors per process then you do not get this error but... This seems to lead to a situation where you open more than 1024 sockets and shortly afterwards get 'connection resets' for some or all of your sockets. Maybe just those above 1024, I have not determined this precisely. My question is this: is it possible to get a higher number of open sockets by editing the system header files on FreeBSD and recompiling GHC? Has anyone tried this before? How high can you go? Thanks, Joel -- http://wagerlabs.com/