Is there any way where I can get the advanced version of the code as compared to 4.3.6 which I am using? On Wed, Feb 14, 2018 at 4:58 AM, Francis Dupont via RT wrote: > On Tue Feb 13 19:39:22 2018, mkrishna@palcnetworks.com wrote: > > I am able to see exact 999 file descriptors as pasted below. > > I have got this output using '*lsof*'. > > => you have reached the silly (but not real) limit of 1000 open > file descriptors of Linux. As it often hurts with named there are > a lot of documentation about to break this limit. > > Unfortunately it is a bit late here but as it is a recurrent issue > someone in another timezone should be able to help you. > > BTW very recent versions of ISC DHCP can be compiled with > a better replacement for select() which can show performance > issue with a large number of descriptors. > >