I think there is not a fixed limit, here are some interesting comments about this:
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Browse All TopicsMY application is running fine with 1024 sockets, now I add some more sockets, the system
said "Error on reading socket". How many sockets opened at one time on Windowserver 2003?
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I think there is not a fixed limit, here are some interesting comments about this:
http://tangentsoft.net/wsk
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by: zc2Posted on 2008-07-31 at 09:34:39ID: 22131263
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