What's The World Record For Maximum Simultaneous Connections? 17
epiphani asks: "Recently a DALnet server, twisted.dal.net broke an IRC record for maximum simultanious connections at 33,829. As part of the DALnet coding team (the creators of Bahamut, DALnet's ircd), I am curious if that is a world record for open sockets in a production environment. Would anyone know if this is the case? Also, the machine is an Athlon 900 running Debian. I cant say I am a Linux fan, but the arguement regarding Linux vs *BSD in socket handling is quite moot at this point as they appear to perform at roughly the same level." Man, that's a lot of open sockets. I don't know if Ripley's tracks this kind of information, but it would be interesting to know if this number beats anything you folks have seen.
Obvious way to test. (Score:3)
(We _are_ still into her, right?)
That's SURE to generate more than 34000 hits at once.
For the humour-impaired: this is a joke.
Talk about HUGE! (Score:1)
Heh but really, with a simple Athlon900 handling that many connections (albiet simple ones) I would have to agree that the whole debate about BSD handling more is pretty useless.
I do remember reading earlier that the FTP CDROM.com people had done extensive testing on their extremely popular download server. I think its some Xeon with like 4 gigs of ram and some huge HD, but the important thing is that it runs on FreeBSD. Apparently they did tests and Linux did not handle a huge amount of FTP connections very well as compared to FreeBSD. Hmm, just food for thought I guess...
And the world record is... (Score:1)
Having an upper bound is always great, because you know when you can stop trying.
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May be Walnut Creek (cdrom.com) (Score:1)
In related news (Score:2)
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Once I worked at a major Internet router (Score:1)
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They'd have to change the configuration to try it (Score:1)
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Re:Obvious way to test. (Score:1)
Speaking of which (Score:1)
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From what I understand (Score:1)
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Re:Talk about HUGE! (Score:1)