Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 22:45:44 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> To: jsoule@webcrossing.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP! how many simultaneous tcp/ip connections Message-ID: <3928C988.B6722FC0@gorean.org> References: <00052117121801.22573@sparky>
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Jeff Soule wrote:
>
> Help!
>
> I have a dual P3 500 system with 2Gig ram and two network cards.
> I need to figure out how many simultaneous tcp/ip connections I can support for 3.3 or 4.0 if that would be better.
4.0 would definitely be better, for a lot of reasons. :) Better still,
install a recent 4.0-Stable snapshot.
> I am currently running 3.3 with smp turned on and maxusers set to 512. I am unfortunately a little out of my realm of
> experience here and would appreciate any help, pointers to man pages etc. I searched through the mailing list
> archives but found little information on the 3.3 kernel or 4.0 for this subject...
I used to have 5,000+ simultaneous sessions on my IRC server, way back
when. Depending on what they are doing, you could probably have a lot
more on a system with modern hardware, providing you have adequate
bandwidth. Without more information it's impossible to say.
Good luck,
Doug
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