Question about numbers of connections

Espartano espartano.mail at gmail.com
Sun May 17 04:41:52 UTC 2009


On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 3:23 PM, David Figuera <david.figuera at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Espartano wrote:
>> Ok, I think that I didn't explain it very well, I don´t have any hight
>> speed network, I only have used my Alix board at my house, but I
>> wondering how much work the Alix board could support, more
>> specifically I wonder if the Alix board could manage about 1 thousand
>> concurrent connections through a 100Mbps network making round-robin to
>> load balance and spread the connections between 3 or 4 servers, I
>> think that the Alix board could do it, It is only  a hypothetical case
>> but I would like to know if I can trust on my Alix board to do this
>> kind of job or not.
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> If you're thinking about buying an ALIX and you are not sure if it's going
> to do the trick, well, I'm not very sure, but I think it will work just fine.
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> I have an ALIX 2C3 (Geode LX800 @500MHz) and would make some tests.
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> PS: Are you subscribed to freebsd-es list as well? I think I've seen you there.

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