[R] increasing the # of socket connections

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Marc Kirchner wrote:

> Dear "R-help"ers,
> 
> using snow on socket connections, I ran into the following error
> 
> 	>  cl <- makeSOCKcluster(hosts)
> 	Error in socketConnection(port = port, server = TRUE, 
> 	blocking = TRUE : all connections are in use
> 
> with "showConnections(all=T)" showing 50 open connections.
> 
> As - for administrative reasons - I would prefer to use snow's
> SOCK capabilities (instead of MPI and the like), I wonder if there is a
> way to increase the number of simultaneous open connections allowed in
> an R session (~100 would be sufficient).

If you really need them open at once (and are not just forgetting to close 
them), then change the constant in the file and recompile.

> Any help/hints are greatly appreciated,

Is this the appropriate list: not on my reading of the posting guide!

> best regards,
> Marc

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