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To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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	"Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Real "technical comparison"
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Rik van Riel wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 30 May 2001, Terry Lambert wrote:
> 
> > The intent of the "test" is obviously intended to show
> > certain facts which we all know to be self-evident under
> > strange load conditions which are patently "unreal".
> 
> > I would suggest a better test would be to open _at least_
> > 250,000 connections to a server

	Depends on your environment. I've had freebsd 4.x machines with 125k
active connections from real http users. The load average was up around 30,
and the pty response was a little slow, but the user experience was just as
snappy as you'd like, thank you very much. FreeBSD frequently leads the
industry in most connections per machine. Back in '96 I held the record
across all IRC networks for most concurrent connections for 8 months,
peaking at 5,300. We would have had more, except our ircd sucked. :) Using
my config and a vastly improved ircd they blew by me on efnet with first
8k, then 10k before the bandwidth cost got to be too much. 

	My point is, you never push the limits unless you push the limits. :)

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