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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
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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).
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