Re: > 15K simultaneous connections EXAMPLE program/OS config needed, was: Re: POSIX aio vs complet

Arjan van de Ven (adve@oce.nl)
Fri, 17 Sep 1999 08:27:45 +0200 (CEST)

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Dan Kegel had the wisdom to write:
DK> Guess I should rename my page c100k.html :-)

DK> Alan recently said that each handle takes up 20k in kernel space.
DK> so 100,000 connections could take up 100k*20k = 2GB of RAM,
DK> which might cause some trouble except on very recent kernels
DK> (and maybe you still need a patch for this).

Even worse, it would require > 64K ports for TCP/IP, and that is not
possible...

Greetings,
Arjan van de Ven

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