Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: > 15,000 Simultaneous Connections | Date | Sat, 11 Sep 1999 01:41:31 +0200 (MEST) | From | (Rogier Wolff) |
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Alan Cox wrote: > > Alan Cox writes: > > > For 15000 connections you will need about 20K a connection in kernel space > > > too - so thats another 300Mb. > > > > That would just be kernel stupidity. If a connection is idle, there is > > no need for the kenel to hold on to 20K for it. > > And if they are all busy at the same time by chance.. 20K is assuming mostly > idle as a worst case
Moreover, if you advertize a decent window, you're bound by TCP/IP to be able to handle that much data coming in. (On the other hand, if you have to drop the packet, you could get away with it...)
Roger.
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