Re: Practical limit for number of TCP connections?

[Ronald F. Guilmette]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Alfred Perlstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Kevin Day wrote:
>
>> > The _clean_ way of doing it would be to write your multi-user server using
>> > threads, and to assign one thread to each connection.  If you can do that,
>> > then the logic in the program becomes quite simple.  Each thread just sits
>> > there, blocked on a call to read(), until something comes in, and then it
>> > just parses the command, does whatever it is supposed to do in response to
>> > that command, and then goes back to the read() again.
>> > 
>> > But as I understand it, there is not yet sufficient threads support in the
>> > FreeBSD kernel to make this work well/properly.  (I may perhaps be misinfo
>rmed
>> > about that, but that's what I have been told anyway.)
>> 
>> I believe this is how ConferenceRoom works, so it seems ok, but I remember
>> the comments that FreeBSD was their least preferred platform because of
>> thread problems.
>
>Using a thread per connection has always been a bogus way of programming,
>it's easy, but it doesn't work very well.


OK, even if nobody else does, I'll bite.

Why not?


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