Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2002 01:12:48 -0800 (PST) From: Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org> To: <stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Heads up, a bit: ephemeral port range changes Message-ID: <20020404011102.M1245-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org> In-Reply-To: <20020404011807.GC93977@madman.nectar.cc>
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On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 01:07:13AM -0600, Mike Silbersack wrote: > > The ephemeral port range determines the maximum number of simultaneous > > outbound connections that you can have. As pointed out in a PR (I don't > > recall the # offhand), our low limit was probably the reason that FreeBSD > > ran out of steam before the other OSes in the sysadmin benchmark last > > year. > > This falls in the same category as any other system tuning for > questionable benchmarks. It is certainly not a compelling reason to > break things. This issue has cost me cycles at work debugging this problem and has, in theory, cost my employers money. It is not just a benchmark issue. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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