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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!news.unt.edu!replicant.csci.unt.edu!jackson From: jackson@replicant.csci.unt.edu (Bruce Jackson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Help! Free BSD chokes after about 20 web connections Date: 25 Sep 1995 18:19:05 GMT Organization: University of North Texas, Denton Lines: 26 Message-ID: <446rqp$lss@hermes.acs.unt.edu> References: <442fg7$pk0@ocean.silcom.com> <445i8v$9q9@reason.cdrom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: replicant.csci.unt.edu JKH=Jordan K. Hubbard <jkh@FreeBSD.org> FD=Frank Dziuba <frank@silcom.com> FD> We're using the latest freeBSD as a web server, and it stops FD> accepting web connections after about 20. It also stops telnet too. JKH> Bizarre! Have you configured some sort of broken custom kernel JKH> for this machine? Needless to say, we don't have this problem JKH> at all!! A lot of people out there using FreeBSD to service JKH> hundreds and hundreds of web connections. I'll second Jordan's observation. While our FreeBSD server never has hundreds of simultaneous web connections it certainly doesn't choke after 20. In addition it serves anon ftp, is a file server for other FreeBSD boxes, serves as my workstation, plus it handles our network backups. The machine is only a 66MHz '486 with 16MB or RAM but it handles the frequent hammering amazingly well. I missed Mr. Dziuba's original post so I don't know what server he is using. I haven't tried many but NCSA httpd 1.4.2 has worked out very well for us (the earlier versions worked fine as well). -- Bruce Jackson | P. O. Box 13886-NT | GAB 550E UNIX Systems Admin. | Denton TX 76203-3886 | (817)565-2279 Computer Sciences | jackson@cs.unt.edu | FAX (817)565-2799 Univ. of North Texas | http://replicant.csci.unt.edu/~jackson/