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From: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] scaling on TCP socket connections
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2023 16:23:40 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP6exYKgnSx4Q4kHijjZAaUN6GZaGXL=2omfA9tFFh8y9DtA0w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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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.

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             reply	other threads:[~2023-03-10  0:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-10  0:23 ron minnich [this message]
2023-03-10  0:42 ` [TUHS] " David Arnold
2023-03-10  0:48 ` 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

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