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Date:      Sat, 18 Dec 1999 16:13:50 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@monkeys.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Practical limit for number of TCP connections? 
Message-ID:  <199912190013.QAA01313@mass.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 18 Dec 1999 15:43:58 PST." <43945.945560638@monkeys.com> 

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> >Using a thread per connection has always been a bogus way of programming,
> >it's easy, but it doesn't work very well.
> 
> 
> OK, even if nobody else does, I'll bite.
> 
> Why not?

It scales poorly.

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\\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\  Mike Smith
\\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself,  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
\\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime.             \\  msmith@cdrom.com




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