TCP stack throughput

[Jani Launonen]

> I made the server close the connection right after sending but it did not 
> make much of a difference. On Mac OSX 200 out of 500 connection requests 
> are refused.

It appears that Linux kernels are by default limited to 128 backlog entries
(http://bcr2.uwaterloo.ca/~brecht/papers/getpaper.php?file=usenix-2004.pdf, 
ch 3, 2. paragraph)

Perhaps configuring kernel differently one could increase the performance 
dramatically as going from backlog length from 5 to 100 demonstrated. I 
don't know if this applies to other operating systems as well or how one 
could make the change (by writing /proc/sys/... or by configuring and 
recompiling kernel).

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Jani Launonen