From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Courtier-Dutton Subject: Max number of TCP sessions Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 20:23:37 +0000 Message-ID: <455CC8C9.2050509@superbug.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net ([194.217.242.91]:30993 "EHLO anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1424442AbWKPUXi (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Nov 2006 15:23:38 -0500 Received: from superbug.demon.co.uk ([80.176.146.252] helo=[192.168.0.10]) by anchor-post-33.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1Gknlp-0006aH-Ai for netdev@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 16 Nov 2006 20:23:37 +0000 To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org 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. Kind Regards James