Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 15:57:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Matthew Gessner <mgessner.freebsd@flashmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about LOTS of outgoing TCP connections with data Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905041551360.28350-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <372F2B72.6B44D5F7@flashmail.com>
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On Tue, 4 May 1999, Matthew Gessner wrote: > I apologize immediately for the cross post, but I don't know who > frequents which lists. > At least I avoided hackers :-) One more and majordomo would have rejected it. > I have a program that creates X tcp connections to a given host (it's a > proprietary network interface card... X.25, TCP/IP, etc). > > Now, I want to be able to test this sucker from FreeBSD. When I start > all 400 connections, 3.1-RELEASE REBOOTS. > > Hmm... kind of nasty behaviour. > > I'm running on a Pentium 166MHz with 32MB of RAM and a 96MB swap space. > > PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE can someone tell me if I have a kernel > configuration problem with this? > Or is there something more sinister going on? Heck if I know, all I know is that you're running 3.1R. Can't do much off of that. > I KNOW FreeBSD can EASILY handle such things, a la www.cdrom.com which > hosts a lot more data throughput than this. wcarchive is running 2.2.X I thought. Plus it's running a _heavily_ modified system and kernel. Maybe 3.1-STABLE... Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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