Openfire (Wildfire) Stops Accepting New Connections
There’s an issue with Openfire (formerly known as Wildfire - the open source Jabber-based IM server) and large amounts of users. The Openfire server stops accepting new connections when approximately 1000+ concurrent users are logged in. This issue seems to be caused by a maximum open file limit per process being hit. I figured out the following solution after a half day or so of researching and testing. This applies to Fedora Core 7 Linux, but should work with any Linux-based OS capable of running Openfire.
Posted: May 15th, 2008 by zach
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