On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 23:17:48 -0500 Kyle Stanley <aeros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > TL;DR: It's definitely possible to have more than one client per TCP port.
Thanks for correcting me. Not sure why, but I appear to make that mistake once every couple years. > I'm have no idea what the > realistic maximum limit of global FDs would be for most modern servers > though, but here's the upper bound limit on Linux kernel 5.3.13: > > [aeros:~]$ cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max > 9223372036854775807 Looks like 2**63 - 1 to me :-) > I recall reading somewhere that per additional 100 file descriptors, it > requires approximately 1MB of main memory. More than file descriptors per se, what's relevant here is the per-TCP connection overhead (unless you're interested in keeping closed TCP sockets around?). Which I guess is related to the latency*bandwidth product. Regards Antoine. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/TC5PANOZ5ROSLMGXMNXB2XSDTD72BIZ6/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
