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On 2012-Sep-04 07:04:50 +1000, Peter Jeremy <peter@rulingia.com> wrote:
>you will probably want to be running amd64 anyway.  That said, Rod
>Grimes was achieving between 100K and 1M TCP connections to FreeBSD
>i386 systems in the 1990's.

Oops, I misremembered.  It was Terry Lambert achieving 1.6M
connections, not Rod Grimes and only about 10 years ago:
http://www.mavetju.org/mail/view_message.php?list=3Dfreebsd-hackers&id=3D15=
02550
(though I can't find when he started the work).

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Peter Jeremy

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