Re: [nodejs] Cannot establish more connections to tcp.createServer()

[r...@tinyclouds.org]

On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Sharief Shaik <shar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have been using node.js in a comet based system on a iphone
> application. I have created a tcp socket connection on port 8080 and
> added listeners to handle the incoming requests. But, I have observed
> the connections do not create after the node.js server is up and
> running and had received a few hundred connections. If I killed and
> restarted the server, the connections keep happening again. Being a
> novice to node.js, I couldn't figure out why no more connections are
> established after a while. Can somebody give a clue what I'm doing
> wrong here.
>
> Also can someone point me to how I can load test the connections.

You shouldn't turn off the idle timeout - it's possible for a peer to
just disappear without explicitly closing the connection (i.e. no
'end' event will be emitted). You should close the connection in the
'timeout' listener.