High Latency using TCP

Hi, I've put together a banal client/server application where the client connects to the server via TCP and maintains the connection for multiple requests. The latency for a single request is around 400ms +/- 2ms, even if both client and server are running on the same host, and the bindin

Denial of service via FD exhaustion

Hi, The following is a known issue, from at least 2002, but I am not sure how it was resolved. Problem: The default configuration of OpenBSD allows any user to incapacitate the machine by exhausting the kernel's file descriptor (FD) table. By default the kernel allocates 1772 FDs (kern