Best utilizing fat long pipes and large file transfer

goemon at anime.net goemon at anime.net
Mon Jun 16 23:21:39 UTC 2008


afaik the limit is 10 *sessions* not 10 *tcp connections*. there should be 
nothing limiting you from opening 10,000 tcp connections in a single app.

eg 10 smb shares, 10 sql sessions, etc.

-Dan

On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Bob Bradlee wrote:

> I have tested it with Icecast using audio streams and it is 100 not 10.
> moved to w2k server and the glass wall at 100 streams went away.
>
> Bob
>
> On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:25:18 -0700 (PDT), goemon at anime.net wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 16 Jun 2008, Glen Turner wrote:
>>> Then there's the deliberate nobbling of the TCP implementation,
>>> such as the restriction to ten of connections to Windows Xp SP3.
>>> Apparently you're meant to buy Windows Server if you are running
>>> P2P applications :-)
>
>> are you quite sure it is *10 tcp connections*?
>> have you tested this?
>
>> -Dan
>
>
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