From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Dec 18 16:10:20 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (castles522.castles.com [208.214.165.86]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B987414D31 for ; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 16:10:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA01313; Sat, 18 Dec 1999 16:13:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199912190013.QAA01313@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Ronald F. Guilmette" Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Practical limit for number of TCP connections? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 18 Dec 1999 15:43:58 PST." <43945.945560638@monkeys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 18 Dec 1999 16:13:50 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >Using a thread per connection has always been a bogus way of programming, > >it's easy, but it doesn't work very well. > > > OK, even if nobody else does, I'll bite. > > Why not? It scales poorly. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message