Maybe just because there are other good articles about that [1] and/or because you can hit the ephemeral port limit without even using that many ports from a si

Maybe just because there are other good articles about that [1] and/or because you can hit the ephemeral port limit without even using that many ports from a single process. They gave examples of ssh (the client) and dig hitting the ephemeral port limit; no reason those programs would use a significant number of file descriptors. [1] I like this one: http://0pointer.net/blog/file-descriptor-limits.html http://0pointer.net/blog/file-descriptor-limits.html