Wondering if you could help me understand this--so the problem is that when you retain X open connections with a backend, there is a limit to the total number of TCP socket numbers open for pound to connect on, leaving you TotalAvailable - X sockets that user's can connect to? I'm having trouble understanding why one would run out of ports, exactly...thank you

 

On 9/18/07, Gergely CZUCZY <phoemix@harmless.hu > wrote:

On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 01:22:25PM -0600, Roger Pack wrote:
> >
> > When i was testing pound with various floods (=heavy traffic), one of
> > the biggest problems was this, i always ran out of available source ports,
> > and because of this, pound rendered the backends DEAD for a time.
> Ahh you mean testing it on one machine used up all available TCP ports on
> that machine?
>   That would be problematic to testing :)
nope. it's problematic for the business critical application, not for
the testing. i had to highly lower tcp timeouts in the firewall to make
pound able to operate under such a traffic.

Sincerely,

Gergely Czuczy
mailto: gergely.czuczy@harmless.hu

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