Socket accept - “Too many open files”

Question

I am working on a school project where I had to write a multi-threaded server, and now I am comparing it to apache by running some tests against it. I am using autobench to

Answer 1

On MacOS, show the limits:

launchctl limit maxfiles

Result like: maxfiles 256 1000

If the numbers (soft limit & hard limit) are too low, you have to set upper:

sudo launchctl limit maxfiles 65536 200000