Handling more than 1024 file descriptors, in C on Linux

Question

I am working on a threaded network server using epoll (edge triggered) and threads and I\'m using httperf to benchmark my server.

So far, it\'s performing really wel

Answer 1

Please see the C10K problem page. It contains an in-depth discussion on how to achieve the '10000 simultaneous connections' goal, while maintaining high-performance and managing to serve each client.

It also contains information on how to increase the performance of your kernel when handling a large number of connections at once.