http - Why is my Hello World go server getting crushed by ApacheBench?

Question

package main

import (
    "io"
    "net/http"
)

func hello(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
    io.WriteString(w, "Hello world!
")
}

func main() {
    http.HandleFunc("/", hello)
    http.ListenAndServe(":8000", nil)
}

I've got a couple of incredibly basic HTTP servers, and all of them are exhibiting this problem.

$ ab -c 1000 -n 10000 http://127.0.0.1:8000/
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 1604373 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking 127.0.0.1 (be patient)
Completed 1000 requests
Completed 2000 requests
Completed 3000 requests
Completed 4000 requests
Completed 5000 requests
apr_socket_recv: Connection refused (61)
Total of 5112 requests completed

With a smaller concurrency value, things still fall over. For me, the issue seems to show up around the 5k-6k mark usually:

$ ab -c 10 -n 10000 http://127.0.0.1:8000/
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 1604373 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking 127.0.0.1 (be patient)
Completed 1000 requests
Completed 2000 requests
Completed 3000 requests
Completed 4000 requests
Completed 5000 requests
Completed 6000 requests
apr_socket_recv: Operation timed out (60)
Total of 6277 requests completed

And in fact, you can drop concurrency entirely and the problem still (sometimes) happens:

$ ab -c 1 -n 10000 http://127.0.0.1:8000/
This is ApacheBench, Version 2.3 <$Revision: 1604373 $>
Copyright 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd, http://www.zeustech.net/
Licensed to The Apache Software Foundation, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking 127.0.0.1 (be patient)
Completed 1000 requests
Completed 2000 requests
Completed 3000 requests
Completed 4000 requests
Completed 5000 requests
Completed 6000 requests
apr_socket_recv: Operation timed out (60)
Total of 6278 requests completed

I can't help but wonder if I'm hitting some kind of operating system limit somewhere? How would I tell? And how would I mitigate?

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