Robert Klemme
10/20/2006 11:34:00 AM
On 20.10.2006 13:12, unni.tallman wrote:
> I have a TCPServer listening on a port. I forked a 500 odd TCP Clients
> and tried to connect to this TCPServer. Around 300 clients got
> connected, others gave the error :
>
> Connection timed out - connect(2) (Errno::ETIMEDOUT)
>
> I wasn't able to connect anymore clients to that server. Does this mean
> that ruby TCPServer can serve only a limited number of clients?
It is a limitation of the underlying network functionality not of Ruby.
If you are on Windows non server version a very strict limitation is
actually built into the OS.
Note that it is generally not a good idea to allow arbitrary numbers of
clients to be served.
Regards
robert