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
> 
> 
> 

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