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From: David Arnold <davida@pobox.com>
To: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: scaling on TCP socket connections
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 11:42:16 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <B1F37B18-02CB-4155-8D46-3CF8CFA9C0A9@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP6exYKgnSx4Q4kHijjZAaUN6GZaGXL=2omfA9tFFh8y9DtA0w@mail.gmail.com>

Dan Kegel’s C10k site was 1999, wasn’t it? That’s probably a decent data point for c.2000



d

> On 10 Mar 2023, at 11:24, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Ca. 1981, if memory serves, having even small numbers of TCP connections was not common. 
> 
> I was told at some point that Sun used UDP for NFS for that reason. It was a reasonably big deal when we started to move to TCP for NFS ca 1990 (my memory of the date -- I know I did it on my own for SunOS as an experiment when I worked at the SRC -- it seemed to come into general use about that time).
> 
> What kind of numbers for TCP connections would be reasonable in 1980, 90, 2000, 2010? 
> 
> I sort of think I know, but I sort of think I'm probably wrong.


  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-10  0:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-10  0:23 [TUHS] " ron minnich
2023-03-10  0:42 ` David Arnold [this message]
2023-03-10  0:48 ` [TUHS] " Warner Losh
2023-03-10  0:59 ` Tom Lyon
2023-03-10  1:24   ` Lawrence Stewart
2023-03-10  1:32   ` Larry McVoy
2023-03-10 10:14     ` Ralph Corderoy
2023-03-10 15:10       ` Larry McVoy
2023-03-10 10:14 Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS

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