[TUHS] scaling on TCP socket connections

[David Arnold]

Dan Kegel’s C10k site was 1999, wasn’t it? That’s probably a decent data point for c.2000



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> On 10 Mar 2023, at 11:24, ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Ca. 1981, if memory serves, having even small numbers of TCP connections was not common. 
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> I was told at some point that Sun used UDP for NFS for that reason. It was a reasonably big deal when we started to move to TCP for NFS ca 1990 (my memory of the date -- I know I did it on my own for SunOS as an experiment when I worked at the SRC -- it seemed to come into general use about that time).
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> What kind of numbers for TCP connections would be reasonable in 1980, 90, 2000, 2010? 
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> I sort of think I know, but I sort of think I'm probably wrong.