RE: Max cfservd connections

[Mark Burgess]

Anyone with such a system would be out of their mind to expect a single
machine to cope with such a load,

M

On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 10:52 -0700, David Masterson wrote:
> A large system with many network connections in an environment supporting
> thousands of machines and (for whatever reason) no use of SplayTime?
> 
> Also consider the reverse -- a tightly controlled *small* system that a user
> wants to severely limit the maxprocesses to prevent runaways, so he lowers
> maxprocesses.
> 
> Mark Burgess wrote:
> > Fair enough - it was meant to be a silly number. I did not anticipate
> > anyone contemplating this. I would be interested to know he
> > circumstances in which it is actual to expect 1000 simulaneous
> > connections to a single machine.
> > 
> > M
> > 
> > On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 10:13 -0700, David Masterson wrote:
> >> Arbitrary numbers should be configuration items.  ;-)
> >> 
> >> Mark Burgess wrote:
> >>> This is just an arbitrary number. Most systems will not want to go
> >>> higher -- but if you do, then change it.
> >>> M
> >>> 
> >>> On Mon, 2005-10-17 at 16:14 -0700, Martin, Jason H wrote:
> >>>> I'm curious, does anyone know why cfservd is limited to 1000
> >>>> concurrent connections? 
> >>>> 
> >>>>> From the latest cfservd.c:
> >>>> if ((CFD_MAXPROCESSES < 1) || (CFD_MAXPROCESSES > 1000))       {
> >>>>       FatalError("cfservd MaxConnections with silly value");      
> >>>> } 
> >>>> 
> >>>> Thank you,
> >>>> -Jason Martin
>