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Date:      Tue, 19 Jun 2001 12:31:06 -0700
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
Cc:        Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net>, "Albert D. Cahalan" <acahalan@cs.uml.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, mhagerty@voyager.net
Subject:   Re: Article: Network performance by OS
Message-ID:  <3B2FA87A.7147FD4D@mindspring.com>
References:  <200106162031.f5GKVfm16209@saturn.cs.uml.edu> <200106162104.f5GL4dX02015@earth.backplane.com> <3B2CDC8C.3C7E382A@bellatlantic.net> <200106171721.f5HHLIu06985@earth.backplane.com>

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Matt Dillon wrote:
>     But this isn't true at all.  How many people need
>     to make thousands or tens of thousands of simultanious
>     connections to a machine out of the box?

Not many.

That said, the product description went out the other day,
so I can say it:

If you properly tune a FreeBSD box with enough RAM in it,
you can support 1,000,000 simultaneous connections, and
still get real work done.

Too cool.  Let's see you tune a Linux or NT box to do that.

-- Terry

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