2003-10-17 17:39:52

by Ogden, Aaron A.

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Subject: RE: ~800 mountpoint limitation


According to MW and EW (Sun and HP, respectively) this is the way it's
done on Solaris and HPUX so I think it's safe to say it's a proven
concept. You go Trond!! :-D

> I'm not really sure that I buy the argument about the server disks
> getting busy. That will tend to hit you whether or not you are sharing
> RPC slots, since it also ties up server resources.
>=20
> The main point with putting all the transport to a given server on one
> socket is that the UDP/TCP congestion control algorithms can then
> function efficiently. Instead of competing against other packets
> originating from itself, the client only has to deal with competition
> from other clients.
>=20
> Cheers,
> Trond


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