Hello all. I am seeking knowledge with respect to setting up an IO::Socket Server that will have longevity. I mainly want to understand why the version I am posting below does not allow more than ~6,000 connects from a client over and over again. I have the client close the socket between reconnects. I really want to understand anything I am doing wrong so I can setup a server that will stay up and running for quite some time. I want it to survive many connections (possibly into the millions, but not at the same time).

I am running this on a Windows XP system using ActiveState Perl. I will eventually run this on a Linux box.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for your help.

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use strict;
use warnings;

use IO::Socket;

my $port = 22000;

print STDOUT "Starting Server on Port $port\n";

StartServer();

sub StartServer{
my $socket = IO::Socket::INET->new(
LocalAddr => 'localhost',
LocalPort => $port,
Proto => 'tcp',
Listen => 5,
Reuse => 1,
Type => SOCK_STREAM,
) or die "Can NOT open socket for server\n\tReason: $@\n\n";

for(;;){
$socket->autoflush(1);
my $client = $socket->accept();

while (my $Request = <$client>){

print STDOUT "Request: $Request\n";
print $client "Your request $Request\n";
}
}
}

In reply to Long Life IO::Socket Server by r1n0

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