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1.6 Million IP Connections on FreeBSD

Posted by michael on from the your-call-is-important-to-us-please-hold dept.

An anonymous reader writes "FreeBSD developer Terry Lambert, in a recent posting to the 'freebsd-hackers' mailing list, mentioned that he'd tuned a FreeBSD 4.4 box with 4GB of RAM to achieve 1,603,127 simultaneous IP connections, and goes on to say: 'As far as I know, I hold the single machine connection record for an x86 box.' This is an impressive achievement any way you look at it (though it begs the question of whether or not the box had any resources left to actually do anything with those connections...), and it speaks well of both FreeBSD's capabilities and Terry's skills and knowledge. I'm curious, though, if anyone has approached, matched, or exceeded that number elsewhere?"

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  1. Alternative Headline: by leviramsey · · Score: 5, Funny

    *BSD handles 1.6 million connections without dying.

  2. sure by pizza_milkshake · · Score: 4, Funny

    my webhosting box does twice that during peak hours, but then i'm hosting free porn so it doesn't count ;)

  3. Prove it... by aridhol · · Score: 4, Funny

    Post the address of that box here. We'll give it a real stress test.

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    I can't say that I don't give a fuck. I've just run out of fuck to give.
  4. Intellectual Property connections? by merlyn · · Score: 1, Funny
    That's a lot of connections to the intellectual property of others. Perhaps he should get a lawyer.

    "What kind of artist are you?"

    "I'm a 'Prior Artist'."

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  5. FreeBSD is dying by mcgroarty · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...to take on heavy server loads.

  6. Re:More Interesting by wabb1t · · Score: 2, Funny

    Great! There were rumours that FreeBSD was still being used at Hotmail, and this seems like possible proof.

    Now if we could only see some actual hotmail pages served by that machine...