From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: scaling on TCP socket connections
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2023 16:48:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfq68FAVRYKJnGPshiibkWT3=RTt6gY0gt_AE4E=Xg5Raw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP6exYKgnSx4Q4kHijjZAaUN6GZaGXL=2omfA9tFFh8y9DtA0w@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Mar 9, 2023, 5:23 PM 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?
>
Normal systems: 10s, 100s, 1000s, 10ks. Depends on what is a reasonable
system...
With the high end 10x or 100x that or a bit more.
These days we do 100ks of video streams at work on our high end boxes...
Warner
I sort of think I know, but I sort of think I'm probably wrong.
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-10 0:48 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 ` [TUHS] " David Arnold
2023-03-10 0:48 ` Warner Losh [this message]
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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