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From: michi1@michaelblizek.twilightparadox.com (michi1 at michaelblizek.twilightparadox.com)
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2013 06:45:14 +0100
Subject: MAX limit of file descriptor
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References: <20130209051047.GA2806@debian.localdomain>
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Hi!

On 14:24 Mon 11 Feb     , Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Feb 2013 13:10:47 +0800, horseriver said:
...
> >    In network programing ,what is the essential for  the maximum of connections
> >    dealed per second
> ...
> So the *real* question
> becomes "how many times per second is your box able to fork() off an httpd,
> do all the processing required, and close the connection?"

If you fork(), than this definitely will be your bottleneck (except the
application does something even slower). Better use epoll+nonblocking i/o.

	-Michi
-- 
programing a layer 3+4 network protocol for mesh networks
see http://michaelblizek.twilightparadox.com