Re: > 15,000 Simultaneous Connections

Rogier Wolff (R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl)
Sat, 11 Sep 1999 01:41:31 +0200 (MEST)

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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