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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. No need to beg. by gaj · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It doen NOT beg any damn question. The claim may suggest a question, or raise a question or perhaps.

    Does any-fucking-body know the meaning of "begging the question"? I don't believe I've heard correct use of the phrase even once in the past year.

    </peeve>

    1. Re:No need to beg. by Tesseract · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      how in the hell did you get mod'd to 2?

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    2. Re:No need to beg. by NDPTAL85 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      I want food, water and air. Now show me how to get along without those.

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  2. it does NOT fucking "beg the question" by syrinx · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    http://www.soyouwanna.com/site/syws/logic/logic2.h tml

    if anyone else uses that phrase wrong i'll have to shoot them. gah.

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