Q: socket error in multi-threaded urlopen

[Seung-won Hwang]

Hello,

I'm trying to call urlopen using multiple threads and it gives me the
following errors. I'm experimenting if I can
call hundreds of 'urlopen' calls simulataneously. Is there any way to get
around this 'too many open files' problem in doing so?

Thanks,
Seung-won

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Exception in thread Thread-24:
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File
"/usr/dcs/software/supported/encap/python-2.0/lib/python2.0/threading.py"
, line 376, in __bootstrap
  File "overload.py", line 20, in run
  File "overload.py", line 27, in num_hits
  File
"/usr/dcs/software/supported/encap/python-2.0/lib/python2.0/urllib.py", l
ine 61, in urlopen
  File
"/usr/dcs/software/supported/encap/python-2.0/lib/python2.0/urllib.py", l
ine 166, in open
  File
"/usr/dcs/software/supported/encap/python-2.0/lib/python2.0/urllib.py", l
ine 273, in open_http
  File
"/usr/dcs/software/supported/encap/python-2.0/lib/python2.0/httplib.py",
line 425, in putrequest
    self.send(str)
  File
"/usr/dcs/software/supported/encap/python-2.0/lib/python2.0/httplib.py",
line 367, in send
    self.connect()
  File
"/usr/dcs/software/supported/encap/python-2.0/lib/python2.0/httplib.py",
line 348, in connect
    self.sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
IOError: [Errno socket error] (24, 'Too many open files')