[TUHS] scaling on TCP socket connections

[Warner Losh]

On Thu, Mar 9, 2023, 5:23 PM ron minnich <rminnich at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ca. 1981, if memory serves, having even small numbers of TCP connections
> was not common.
>
> 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).
>
> What kind of numbers for TCP connections would be reasonable in 1980, 90,
> 2000, 2010?
>

Normal systems: 10s, 100s, 1000s, 10ks. Depends on what is a reasonable
system...

With the high end 10x or 100x that or a bit more.

These days we do 100ks of video streams at work on our high end boxes...

Warner

I sort of think I know, but I sort of think I'm probably wrong.
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