On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 06:30:36AM -0600, Conor_D_Wynne at Dell.com wrote:
> >> 12GB on i386 is insane :)
>> AFAIK You're fine until you go above 16GB [or hit 16GB that is]
>> On a side note, I was trying to download kernel 2.6.1 from heanet there
> yesterday and had 2 give up. The respnse time was pretty bad, what was going
> on?
That would be the 13,000 simulataneous downloads :/ At this point we're
actually hitting kernel stack stuff :) A few days ago we were only a
few thousand shy of running out of spare TCP ports aswell (active FTP
is nasty like that!).
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