[JDEV] scaling a single server?

[Daniel Arbuckle]

On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 06:27:15PM +1300, Jacob O'Reilly wrote:
> I can't give you any idea about scalability of Jabber, but I do know that
> the number of sockets a process can have open is tunable in the kernel.  I
> don't know for Linux (as opposed to the commercial Unices I've used) whether
> that is a socket specific parameter or just a factor of NFILE.  I imagine
> that with that many users tho., a fair few parameters might need to be
> changed.

I can't answer that, but I can tell you that on my linux box, without
modifying any parameters, I can have approximately 1020 simultaneous
open sockets. Not exactly what you need for ultra-large installations.

Daniel
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