From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 13 03:09:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D1EC516A4CE for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 03:09:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from hannibal.servitor.co.uk (hannibal.servitor.co.uk [195.188.15.48]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A39D043D1F for ; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 03:09:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from paul@hannibal.servitor.co.uk) Received: from paul by hannibal.servitor.co.uk with local (Exim 4.14) id 1ArbCZ-0004Pc-3f; Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:09:43 +0000 Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:09:43 +0000 From: Paul Robinson To: Mike Silbersack Message-ID: <20040213110943.GJ94761@iconoplex.co.uk> References: <20040213001513.M60613@gardrail.com> <20040212223845.E570@odysseus.silby.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040212223845.E570@odysseus.silby.com> Sender: Paul Robinson cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: Bill Subject: Re: Obtaining 75k (active) concurrent tcp sessions.. X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2004 11:09:35 -0000 On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 10:48:13PM -0600, Mike Silbersack wrote: > That was with a heavily modified version of FreeBSD, you wouldn't be able > to hit 1.6 million out of the box. What's more, the amount of content you'd be able to shift over that number of connections and the overall performance would be pretty shocking. If you're dealing with that many connections, you should be clustering. In fact, even for 75k, I would suggest clustering your the app over a couple of servers anyway. That reminds me - it's a long time since I last looked into -cluster. :-) -- Paul Robinson