From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 4 15:57:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F5B61539A for ; Tue, 4 May 1999 15:57:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA03799; Tue, 4 May 1999 15:57:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 15:57:43 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Matthew Gessner Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question about LOTS of outgoing TCP connections with data In-Reply-To: <372F2B72.6B44D5F7@flashmail.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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