socket: Too many open files (24) apache bench lighttpd

Question

When I start Apache Bench test:

ab -n 10000 -c 1300 http://domain.com/test.php

I get error:

socket: Too many

Answer 1

Check out the documentation for lighty. You might have to set the server.max-fds option. Also server.max-connections should be changed accordingly (again, see the documentation).