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Date:      Thu, 4 Apr 2002 01:12:48 -0800 (PST)
From:      Lamont Granquist <lamont@scriptkiddie.org>
To:        <stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Heads up, a bit:  ephemeral port range changes
Message-ID:  <20020404011102.M1245-100000@coredump.scriptkiddie.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020404011807.GC93977@madman.nectar.cc>

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On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 01:07:13AM -0600, Mike Silbersack wrote:
> > The ephemeral port range determines the maximum number of simultaneous
> > outbound connections that you can have.  As pointed out in a PR (I don't
> > recall the # offhand), our low limit was probably the reason that FreeBSD
> > ran out of steam before the other OSes in the sysadmin benchmark last
> > year.
>
> This falls in the same category as any other system tuning for
> questionable benchmarks.  It is certainly not a compelling reason to
> break things.

This issue has cost me cycles at work debugging this problem and has,
in theory, cost my employers money.  It is not just a benchmark issue.


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