From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 19 14:20:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA20903 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 14:20:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from CyberJunky.Net ([206.190.60.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA20895 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 14:20:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daniel@cyberjunky.net) Received: from penguin (penguin.cyberjunky.net [206.190.60.103] (may be forged)) by CyberJunky.Net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id QAA13563 for ; Mon, 19 Oct 1998 16:21:54 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <001e01bdf626$d4030600$673cbece@penguin.cyberjunky.net> From: "Daniel Harris" To: Subject: FreeBSD And Max Simultaneous Connections Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 16:25:25 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG We are trying to determine the absolute maximum amount of simultaneous connections a FreeBSD machine can handle under the worst conditions. Transmissions would encompass one port, around 512 bytes of data, and handled by a custom daemon. The machines would be of the following configuration: K62-350 256mb RAM Ultra Wide Scsi Disks 512k Cache PCI 100mbit ethernet We have no idea what the FreeBSD operating system itself can handle (either 3.0 or a 2.2.X variant) and don't really have a way to test at this point. We need to find out the number of machines it would require to service a pre-determined amount of connections assuming we had the bandwidth and resources to support it. Can anyone also tell me what I can do to tweak a machine to handle the Max connections? IE, the kernel config needed (maxusers, somaxconn, etc), and hardware side. Thanks.. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message