Logged In: YES 
user_id=1488997

Yes, I had my ulimit set appropriately.

There's no problem with _opening_ many sockets (at least, I
don't think there is) - the problem is with trying to do
something (like call socket.recv()) with them.

The code in socketmodule.c is pretty clear - and having
upgraded to 2.4.3 with ubuntu dapper, I _am_ running into this.

For now, we're having to keep all our production machines on
2.4.2.