Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 17 Sep 1999 08:27:45 +0200 (CEST) | From | (Arjan van de Ven) | Subject | Re: > 15K simultaneous connections EXAMPLE program/OS config needed, was: Re: POSIX aio vs completion ports |
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Dan Kegel had the wisdom to write: DK> Guess I should rename my page c100k.html :-)
DK> Alan recently said that each handle takes up 20k in kernel space. DK> so 100,000 connections could take up 100k*20k = 2GB of RAM, DK> which might cause some trouble except on very recent kernels DK> (and maybe you still need a patch for this).
Even worse, it would require > 64K ports for TCP/IP, and that is not possible...
Greetings, Arjan van de Ven
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