From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jun 19 12:30:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.121.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A93837B401 for ; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 12:30:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.244.104.1.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.244.104.1]) by gull.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA15983; Tue, 19 Jun 2001 12:30:35 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B2FA87A.7147FD4D@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2001 12:31:06 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matt Dillon Cc: Sergey Babkin , "Albert D. Cahalan" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, mhagerty@voyager.net Subject: Re: Article: Network performance by OS References: <200106162031.f5GKVfm16209@saturn.cs.uml.edu> <200106162104.f5GL4dX02015@earth.backplane.com> <3B2CDC8C.3C7E382A@bellatlantic.net> <200106171721.f5HHLIu06985@earth.backplane.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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