From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Apr 25 6:54:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f15.law8.hotmail.com [216.33.241.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3EDDF37BD0B for ; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 06:54:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from smanand@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 40348 invoked by uid 0); 25 Apr 2000 13:54:23 -0000 Message-ID: <20000425135423.40347.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 203.197.18.37 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Tue, 25 Apr 2000 06:54:23 PDT X-Originating-IP: [203.197.18.37] From: "muthiah anand" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: need about 5000 tcp connection....how to? Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 06:54:23 PDT Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi 1.my application should be able to accept about 5000-7000 tcp connections the connections stay for hours, but i/o on these sockets are less what would be the ideal kernel configurations to achieve this? like what are the param that i have to chg i tried maxusers = 512 and 128 256.... doesnt solve my prob i have to run a small process for each connection. so i ran a loop with fork() but after 1800 process the m/c freezes what could be the problem? 2.does this has anything to do with hardware configuration? i have 2 test pcs one high end pc, compaq proliant pentiumIII 500mhz, 1gb, scsi harddrive.... another one, anormal pentiumII 300mhz 128mb, ide drive the second one can fork many process than the compaq pc for the same kernel config what could be the reason? thanks in advance -anand ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message