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Subject: Re: More open sockets with vimages?
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Ragnar Lonn wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am a longtime (well, since 2004 or so) vimage user. It's really nice 
> to see this great stuff getting into the main branch!
> 
> I have a quick question for the list: I want to be able to have a 
> machine handle a *lot* of open network connections. Many systems have 
> various issues with this, but I thought that if FreeBSD's vimages might 
> be able to get around the problem. Is it possible to have more open 
> network sockets using multiple vimages, than it is on a FreeBSD without 
> vimage? Are sockets still a global resource, or do they get multiplied 
> with each vimage?
> 
> I apologize if this is a stupid question, I haven't been using 
> FreeBSD+vimages in a while (although I hope to change that soon!)

sockets are a global resource that are assigned to vimages.
However the amount of sockets available are tunable.
how many are we talking about here?

> 
> Cheers,
> 
>  /Ragnar
> 
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