From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 21 22:46: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n0b.san.rr.com (dt051n0b.san.rr.com [204.210.32.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B755537BB4F for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 22:45:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n0b.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA19053; Sun, 21 May 2000 22:45:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <3928C988.B6722FC0@gorean.org> Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 22:45:44 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0508 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jsoule@webcrossing.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP! how many simultaneous tcp/ip connections References: <00052117121801.22573@sparky> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message