I set out to take a look at Web Velocity's scalability today, so I had to install httperf on my Mac. That required a C compiler, so I had to dig out the Leopard DVD and get XCode installed. No problem there - MacPorts worked great and gave me httperf in a jiffy after that.

However, I ran into a small problem - I can't really create more than about 40 requests per second, because httperf complains about FD_SETSIZE being smaller than the open file limit, so it limits itself to 1024. I really don't know what to do from here - my C language skills are rusty enough that they just flake off at this point. Any suggestions?

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