Ah, fishing stories...
Containers and CPU-caps is what my customer really wanted when we ended up supporting FairShareII
for then on 2.5.1. The pre-cursor to SRM. They had 3,000 separate Netscape 2.x instances running on
a E4000, just two CPUs but mucho $$ of memory back then. NS would call net
Steffen Weiberle writes:
> PS. I was impressed with the linearity of ifconfig going through 8K
> interfaces.
This is due to the work of the SolarMAX project, which converted the
kernel ipif database from a linear list to AVL trees.
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James Carlson, KISS Network<[EMAIL PROTE
A few years ago, and I think on Solaris 8, Marcus Heckel went up to
64,000 logical interfaces on a 280R, and drove over 200 web hits per
second against them with one instance of Apache driving 1,000 IP
addresses. Dropping that down to 2,000 interfaces and with separate
Apache instances, he had 1,7
Based on an internal question of how many logical interfaces a non global zone can have, I did some
sanity testing. But before that, the general answer include:
There is no limit to the interfaces presented to a NGZ
Limits, if any, are at the system level.
Currently the default is 256 total (1
