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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+use Test::More tests => 11;
+
+use FindBin qw($Bin);
+use lib "$Bin/lib";
+use MemcachedTest;
+
+
+# start up a server with 10 maximum connections
+my $server = new_memcached('-c 10');
+my $sock = $server->sock;
+my @sockets;
+
+ok(defined($sock), 'Connection 0');
+push (@sockets, $sock);
+
+
+foreach my $conn (1..10) {
+  $sock = $server->new_sock;
+  ok(defined($sock), "Made connection $conn");
+  push(@sockets, $sock);
+}