Re: IceBreak as an alternative to Apache?

[Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually, I'm not sure where I got the 65000 number.  I think I was 
thinking about the maximum number of ports per IP address.  
Realistically the limit on concurrent stateful sessions is the number of 
simultaneous processes that you can have being served from the same IP 
address, and I think that number is actually pretty low.  It gets a 
little fuzzy; I think the number is controlled by the MaxClients setting 
and that number is rarely set above 1000, but maybe Aaron knows more.

Joe

> But this is a little bit of a red herring.  The real limitation is that
> you can only have 65,000 connections on an IP address.  If you have over
> 65K connections, you need multiple IP addresses and once you have
> multiple IP addresses, you automatically have a way to segment the load
> among multiple servers.  So even if you were trying to run Amazon on an
> IBM i, you could do it.
>
> Joe