ejabberd - Comments for "TCP socjets and number of processes on a VPS plan." https://www.ejabberd.im/node/2753 en Limit in sockets. https://www.ejabberd.im/node/2753#comment-51556 <div class="quote-msg"> <div class="quote-author"><em>Anonymous</em> wrote:</div> <p>The VPS plan I`m using has limitation on the number of TCP sockets and the number of processes.<br /> Will this limit the number of concurrent users my server will be able to support?</p></div> <p>Yes, socket limitation limits you: each client connection requires a socket.</p> <p>The Erlang virtual machine may start some programs (epmd, ssl_esock...) and connect to them using sockets, but as they are local, they shouldn't be a problem. The Erlang virtual machine implements erlang processes, and fortunately those are NOT system processes.</p> <div class="quote-msg"> <div class="quote-author"><em>Anonymous</em> wrote:</div> <p>Will there be a difference between users using a desktop client and users using web client with BOSH?</p></div> <p>I don't know, but if HTTP-Bind sets a permanent socket connection, then it makes no difference.</p> Tue, 01 Jan 2008 22:13:12 +0000 mfoss comment 51556 at https://www.ejabberd.im