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Date:      Tue, 21 Apr 1998 15:43:37 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Matthew Hagerty <wpub1@net-link.net>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 1 Gbyte of ram 
Message-ID:  <199804212243.PAA02885@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Apr 1998 12:22:03 EDT." <3.0.3.32.19980421122203.0074c288@smtp.net-link.net> 

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>>> >BTW will a news server qualify as a system with lots of TCP connections
>>> >and the need of lots of mbufs ?
>>> 
>>>    Probably not. Most large news servers handle on the order of perhaps
>>> 100-200 TCP connections. When I say "large number", I mean in the
>thousands.
>>> 
>>> -DG
>>
>>A big web server will though :-)
>>
>
>So, what is considered 'alot' of mbufs?  1024, 2048, 4096???

   Wcarchive is configured for 50000.

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

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