[ale] OT: windows socket connections

[Geoffrey]

Greg Freemyer wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Geoffrey<lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
>> JK wrote:
>>> Geoffrey wrote:
>>>> Anyone have any experience with a large number of socket connections to
>>>> a Windows box?  Concerns, complaints, experiences????
>>>
>>> How large is "large"?
>>>
>>> I have an app that creates and binds hundreds of UDP sockets under
>>> Windows XP without any problems.  Haven't done anything similar
>>> with TCP, though.
>> Could be a couple of 100 connections.
> 
> I support an app that can run up to about 800 connections
> simultaneously in Win2003.
> 
> It's based on Tomcat, so I think we have to up the max-connections /
> threads count there.  And possibly in the registry for Windows too,
> but it is not any big deal.
> 
> I don't have any reason to think we can't go higher, just have not had
> the need yet.

Thanks all, that's what I needed to hear.  We'll see how this all works.

> 
> Greg


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