[ECOS] Maximum number of TCP connections

[llandre]

>On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 12:01:10PM +0200, llandre wrote:
> > I did not understand if it is possibile and how to set the maximum number
> > of TCP connections acceptable by the stack.
> > From this point of view, are there differences between the two stacks
> > (OpenBSD and FreeBSD)?
>
>Each socket needs a file descriptor. There are two things you need to
>configure:
>
>CYGPKG_IO_NFILE
>CYGNUM_FILEIO_NFD
>
>By default these are 16, so you have a maximum of 16 open sockets and
>files.
>
>Both stacks come from the Unix world, so the stacks themselves should
>have no practical limit. Memory is probably you limitation.
>
>      Andrew

Can you estimate the memory footprint required by each open socket/file?


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