Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: > 15,000 Simultaneous Connections | Date | Mon, 6 Sep 1999 11:06:44 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> There are several different programs out there which require a large number > of persistant connections. Most of them are messaging oriented having a small > amount of actual data being transfered per socket, but a large number of > sockets total. > A few examples of these would be IRC, ICQ and MUDs. With HTTP 1.1's persistant > connections this will also be an issue.
ICQ doesnt use persistent connections. For good reasons - the connections are so passive most of the time that the ack/keepalive/other management bandwidth and cpu overhead exceeds the cost of using back off algorithms above UDP in their case.
Alan
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