How to have open more than 65k concurrent connections?
johndole at hush.ai
johndole at hush.ai
Thu Oct 14 16:03:23 UTC 2010
Hi,
I am somewhat new to networking. I have interest in running a
Bittorrent tracker. I ran one for a bit, and my one Linux box
running Opentracker gets overloaded. My connection is good, and
most of it isn't being used. Just a lot of people connect, and use
up all the 65k "free connections". I tried messing with the
sysctls, but it didn't help too much (and just degraded the
connection quality for everyone). It is not a malicious attack
either as there is only a few connections per IP and they are
sending proper Bittorrent tracker requests...
So what can I do? How can I have have open more than 65k concurrent
connections on standard GNU/Linux?
Thanks for any ideas and suggestions.
-John
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