It's been rumoured that Lokesh Setia said:
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> Hi,
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> Can a 200MHz pentium take the load of a process with 5000 open file
> descriptors, or will it just crash. Also which of the above 2 approaches
I don't know the answer to your question, but one traditional problem with
using tcpip sockets is that each one takes up space in kernel memory, and
so memory usage can get very large very quick. This is one reason why
UDP is frequently used for chat-liek things instead of TCP.
--linas
