More open sockets with vimages?
Julian Elischer
julian at elischer.org
Sat Feb 7 14:42:10 PST 2009
Ragnar Lonn wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am a longtime (well, since 2004 or so) vimage user. It's really nice
> to see this great stuff getting into the main branch!
>
> I have a quick question for the list: I want to be able to have a
> machine handle a *lot* of open network connections. Many systems have
> various issues with this, but I thought that if FreeBSD's vimages might
> be able to get around the problem. Is it possible to have more open
> network sockets using multiple vimages, than it is on a FreeBSD without
> vimage? Are sockets still a global resource, or do they get multiplied
> with each vimage?
>
> I apologize if this is a stupid question, I haven't been using
> FreeBSD+vimages in a while (although I hope to change that soon!)
sockets are a global resource that are assigned to vimages.
However the amount of sockets available are tunable.
how many are we talking about here?
>
> Cheers,
>
> /Ragnar
>
>
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