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My game is crashing when it hits a certain number of users. When I hit about 100 simultaneous games and about 300 connected users, I get this error infinitely until I kill the Smartfox process.
I'm wondering if there is some sort of limit on socket connections that I need to increase. In addition to using connections for users, I am also using LoadVars to hit an external PHP script frequently during games. I'm wondering if the connections being opened by LoadVars are not being closed for reuse?

You're running under Linux, I suppose.
The problem is with the config of your OS. Linux treats both socket connections and files as "file descriptors" and by default allows a maximum of 1024 "files" open at the same time.

You can check the limit in your OS by typing this in the terminal: and you can change it with:
Make sure you run SmartFoxServer under the same user you used for changing the limit

hope it helps

p.s. = If you logout the change will be lost.
if you are a little familiar with the Linux shell you can alter the sfs script to incorporate that ulimit command.