From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: e8607062@student.tuwien.ac.at,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.13-rc6 1/2] New Syscall: get rlimits of any process (update)
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 20:15:55 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1124410556.10991.49.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1124411388.20755.20.camel@localhost.localdomain>
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 01:29 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Iau, 2005-08-18 at 19:16 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > A search for a 200MB file tells you it's available on 2000 hosts, all of
> > whom are on dialup.
>
> What about the real world ?
>
OK that was a poorly contrived example. Anyway the specific numbers
don't matter as much; it's actually quite a common scenario to run out
of FDs before you can fill the pipe. It happens to me about once a
week.
Modern P2P protocols all seem to use some type of "swarming". IIRC the
inspiration was the DDOS attacks of the late 90s - thousands of hosts on
slow connections can fill even the fattest pipe.
Lee
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-19 0:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-18 0:57 [PATCH 2.6.13-rc6 1/2] New Syscall: get rlimits of any process (update) Wieland Gmeiner
2005-08-18 1:02 ` [PATCH 2.6.13-rc6 2/2] New Syscall: set " Wieland Gmeiner
2005-08-18 1:57 ` Chris Wright
2005-08-18 15:48 ` Stephen Smalley
2005-08-18 1:17 ` [PATCH 2.6.13-rc6 1/2] New Syscall: get " Chris Wright
2005-08-18 2:05 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-18 16:19 ` Wieland Gmeiner
2005-08-18 16:40 ` James Morris
2005-08-18 17:49 ` Alan Cox
2005-08-19 17:11 ` Elliot Lee
2005-08-23 5:52 ` Ulrich Drepper
2005-08-18 18:17 ` Lee Revell
2005-08-18 23:13 ` Alan Cox
2005-08-18 23:16 ` Lee Revell
2005-08-19 0:29 ` Alan Cox
2005-08-19 0:15 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2005-08-22 5:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
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[not found] ` <p7364u40zld.fsf@verdi.suse.de.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
[not found] ` <1124381951.6251.14.camel@w2.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2005-08-18 16:39 ` Andi Kleen
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