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).

Answer 2

ulimit -n 10000

That might not work depending on you system configuration Consult this to configure your system.

Answer 3

to permernent change max opened files limit, you should modify /etc/security/limits.conf and reboot system:

echo -ne " 
* soft nofile 65536 
* hard nofile 65536 
" >>/etc/security/limits.conf