On 2012-Sep-04 07:04:50 +1000, Peter Jeremy <pe...@rulingia.com> wrote: >you will probably want to be running amd64 anyway. That said, Rod >Grimes was achieving between 100K and 1M TCP connections to FreeBSD >i386 systems in the 1990's.
Oops, I misremembered. It was Terry Lambert achieving 1.6M connections, not Rod Grimes and only about 10 years ago: http://www.mavetju.org/mail/view_message.php?list=freebsd-hackers&id=1502550 (though I can't find when he started the work). -- Peter Jeremy
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