[R-sig-hpc] Error in socketConnection ... all connections are in use

[Rob Steele]

This is occurring with the R parallel package.  How do I increase the 
maximum number of connections?

Thanks!


Error in socketConnection("localhost", port = port, server = TRUE, 
blocking = TRUE,  :
   all connections are in use
Calls: makeCluster ... makePSOCKcluster -> newPSOCKnode -> socketConnection
Execution halted


platform       x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu
arch           x86_64
os             linux-gnu
system         x86_64, linux-gnu
status
major          2
minor          15.0
year           2012
month          03
day            30
svn rev        58871
language       R
version.string R version 2.15.0 (2012-03-30)
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