Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 15:58:38 -0300 (BRST) From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: "Andresen,Jason R." <jandrese@mitre.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Real "technical comparison" Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0105301555430.12540-100000@imladris.rielhome.conectiva> In-Reply-To: <3B14A1FE.89C32156@mindspring.com>
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On Wed, 30 May 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > The intent of the "test" is obviously intended to show > certain facts which we all know to be self-evident under > strange load conditions which are patently "unreal". > I would suggest a better test would be to open _at least_ > 250,000 connections to a server That would certainly qualify for the "patently unreal" part, but I don't know what else you want to prove here. > This could easily be the case with, for example, a pager > network or other content broadcasting system, or an EAI > tool, such as IBM's MQ-Series. Doing a gigabit per second in 3kB per second connections doesn't seem all that realistic when you realise that they'll want their messages only acknowledged when they are safely on disk, etc... Think "transactions". regards, Rik -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ Send all your spam to aardvark@nl.linux.org (spam digging piggy) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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