From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.co.uk>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Max number of TCP sessions
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:21:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061116142135.49bf524e@freekitty> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <455CC8C9.2050509@superbug.co.uk>
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 20:23:37 +0000
James Courtier-Dutton <James@superbug.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> For a host using a Pentium 4 CPU at 2.8Mhz, what is a sensible max value
> for number of TCP sessions this host could run under Linux?
> Bandwidth per TCP session is likely to be about 10kbytes/second.
>
Look at your fundamental limits:
* how fast is your network interface?
* how fast is your bus?
* how much kernel memory is available.
--
Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-16 22:21 UTC|newest]
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2006-11-16 20:23 Max number of TCP sessions James Courtier-Dutton
2006-11-16 22:21 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2006-11-16 22:52 ` Rick Jones
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