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Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 08 Jul 1998 13:38:36 +0800, "Michael O'Reilly"
> <michael@metal.iinet.net.au> said:
>
> > If you're even coming close to using 3000 FDs then I can guarentee
> > that your disk thruput is maxed out for squid 1.1.
>
> Michael,
>
> There was an interesting paper on this at the recent Usenix. A large
> proxy server had been profiled and they showed an average of 50 hot
> connections present at any time, and *750* cold (slow) connections, at
> a rate of 220 new connections per second. The cold connections were
> purely a result of WAN-level timings; under lab conditions all
> connections were serviced pretty rapidly, but on the internet, enough
> connections go really slowly to contribute a lot to mean connection
> lifetimes. They had a median connection lifetime of 250ms and a mean
> of 2.5 seconds.
>
> This is a real problem: you don't have to have a massively busy
> server, just a server requesting items from a slow domain, for the
> number of outstanding connections at a time to grow enormously. (The
> Usenix paper was explicitly dealing with slow select() and get-new-fd
> handling in the kernel, btw.)
>
> --Stephen
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