Subject: Re: Max number of TCP sessions

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:21:35 -0800

On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 20:23:37 +0000
James Courtier-Dutton <[email-masked]> 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.

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Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>