On 8 Nov 2016, at 15:37, Neil J. McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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!
Cue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo> …. Tim > 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 > > >
