any limitation on outbound tcp connections on Windows

[Shelton Tang]

i find it's caused by the native dns resolution.  thanks.

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 2:37 PM, Shelton Tang<shelton.ms@REDACTED> wrote:
> I wrote a test program with C# and didn't see such problem. is this a
> limitation in erlang@REDACTED?
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> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Shelton Tang<shelton.ms@REDACTED> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I use gen_tcp:connect to make outbound TCP connection.  The argument
>> passed to the call is  [list, {packet, 0},{reuseaddr, true},{active,
>> false}] (I also tried binary or passive mode but no luck).  However,
>> my test shows the maximum concurrent connections are <= 10 on my xp
>> and 5 - 8 on a X64 win2k8 machine. All other connections got timeout
>> error. So I captured a network traffic and didn't find any frame for
>> the timeout connections. Then I try to connect to the local host with
>> 127.0.0.1. On my WinXP box, I can create about 32 connections and
>> other got econnrefused error (the server is an erlang socket server).
>>
>> I know there is a 10 SYN limitation on winxp tcpip.sys.  However, the
>> confused is why i hit the problem on a powerful (16G memory, 4
>> processors with dual cores) x64 machine? Possible reasons:
>> 1. is there any limitation in erlang?  (becoz i can make > 10
>> connections to 127.0.0.1, most like it is not an erlang issue).
>> 2. is there any limitation on tcpip.sys on win2k8?
>> 3. is it possible there is a restraction on my firewall? (but if so, i
>> should see any network frames but actually i didn't find it).
>>
>> any ideas?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Shelton
>>
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