Wow, you guys want to run a mailserver or a newsserver twenty years ago with a machine with a 1/10th of the power we have now and I/O that made your eyes water it was so slow. _1000_s of TCP connections, you just need memory and we have plenty of that too!
Neil. On 08/11/2016, 11:36, "uknof on behalf of Tim Bray" <[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> wrote: When I mean port starvation, just look at your desktop now on linux, run both these commands. (Needs both flavours, even if your machine is only IPv4 connected. I think it depends how the application opens the socket) netstat -n -A inet netstat -n -A inet6 or { netstat -n -A inet6 && netstat -n -A inet; } | wc -l and -2 from the output. On windows netstat -n And just see how many sockets you have open. Mine says 87 now, and not really got that many browser tabs open. I've seen consumer firewalls wimp out at 800 or so sessions ..... -- Tim Bray [email protected] | +44 7966 479015 | http://www.kooky.org Huddersfield, UK
