Increasing limit of FD_SETSIZE and select

Question

I want to increase FD_SETSIZE macro value for my system. Is there any way to increase FD_SETSIZE so select will not fail

Answer 1

I also suggest using poll if possible. And there exist several "event" processing libraries like libevent or libev (or the event abilities of Glib from GTK, or QtCore, etc) which should help you. There are also things like epoll. And your problem is related to C10k