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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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