Re: Practical limit for number of TCP connections?

[Alfred Perlstein]

On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Kevin Day wrote:

> > The _clean_ way of doing it would be to write your multi-user server using
> > threads, and to assign one thread to each connection.  If you can do that,
> > then the logic in the program becomes quite simple.  Each thread just sits
> > there, blocked on a call to read(), until something comes in, and then it
> > just parses the command, does whatever it is supposed to do in response to
> > that command, and then goes back to the read() again.
> > 
> > But as I understand it, there is not yet sufficient threads support in the
> > FreeBSD kernel to make this work well/properly.  (I may perhaps be misinformed
> > about that, but that's what I have been told anyway.)
> 
> I believe this is how ConferenceRoom works, so it seems ok, but I remember
> the comments that FreeBSD was their least preferred platform because of
> thread problems.

Using a thread per connection has always been a bogus way of programming,
it's easy, but it doesn't work very well.

-Alfred



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