Re: "The Kernel is the Problem, Not the Solution"

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 13 May 2013, at 22:36, Dave Scott <Dave.Scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 
> http://highscalability.com/blog/2013/5/13/the-secret-to-10-million-concurrent-connections-the-kernel-i.html
> 
> Some quite interesting stuff in there.

I definitely want to try out our existing TCP stack with a few million 
connections and see how we fare.  Perhaps we should give this a shot at the Xen 
hackathon on Thursday?  The hard bit is finding enough interfaces on the Linux 
test clients so they don't run out of ports :-P

-anil