Earlier today we told you about a hard limit in siege. Since it relied on select rather than poll, it was unable to open more than 1024 concurrent sockets on most — maybe all! — operating systems. Now Your JoeDog never needs that many sockets but some of you are over 1000. When you scheduled that many, your OS would abort siege. Don’t worry, the Supreme Court is cool with that.

This limitation was the result of a design decision from 1999. Fortunately, a 2001 design decision made it easy to incorporate both mechanisms in the same distribution. The configure script will check to see if you have poll and, really, in 2015 you should have it. If you do, it will use that mechanism to test your sockets.

Nothing changes for you dinosaurs. If you don’t have poll, then you can carry on with your precious select.

So Your JoeDog could use some beta testers. The changes have been submitted to the main branch at github.com and they’re available in this distribution: http://download.joedog.org/siege/beta/siege-3.1.0-rc2.tar.gz

Test it, Doggers, test its little brains out.