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    SubjectRe: File-descriptors - large quantities
    Hi,

    On Wed, 08 Jul 1998 13:38:36 +0800, "Michael O'Reilly"
    <michael@metal.iinet.net.au> said:

    > If you're even coming close to using 3000 FDs then I can guarentee
    > that your disk thruput is maxed out for squid 1.1.

    Michael,

    There was an interesting paper on this at the recent Usenix. A large
    proxy server had been profiled and they showed an average of 50 hot
    connections present at any time, and *750* cold (slow) connections, at
    a rate of 220 new connections per second. The cold connections were
    purely a result of WAN-level timings; under lab conditions all
    connections were serviced pretty rapidly, but on the internet, enough
    connections go really slowly to contribute a lot to mean connection
    lifetimes. They had a median connection lifetime of 250ms and a mean
    of 2.5 seconds.

    This is a real problem: you don't have to have a massively busy
    server, just a server requesting items from a slow domain, for the
    number of outstanding connections at a time to grow enormously. (The
    Usenix paper was explicitly dealing with slow select() and get-new-fd
    handling in the kernel, btw.)

    --Stephen

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