Re: > 15,000 Simultaneous Connections

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 10 Sep 1999 22:00:26 +0100 (BST)

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> 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

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