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From: "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
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Subject: Re: Can someone tell me what this kernel message means?
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<<On Thu, 7 Mar 1996 15:30:45 -0500 (EST), Craig Shrimpton <craigs@venus.os.com> said:

> Is there any rules of thumb for this?  Like a per connection guideline?  
> My system runs INN and could have as many as 30 or 40 NNTP connections at 
> a time.

It doesn't matter how many /open/ connections you have, it's a
question of how long to keep cached data about old, now-closed
connections around.  You can figure on about 128-256 bytes per host
with which you talk.

-GAWollman

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