Re: connection rate in ircd? ( 2.10.3p3 )

[Timothee Besset <ttimo@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks. That's exactly what I had missed..

TTimo

On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 08:38:12 +0100
Kurt Roeckx <Q@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 12:02:30AM +0100, Timothee Besset wrote:
> > I've been doing a few basic stress testing operations on ircd on a Linux
> > system, and I'm finding that the rate at which TCP connections to the ircd
> > port are accepted is limited, and fairly low. My tests show around 5
> > connections/second. If I try to connect at once around 250 clients, all
> > TCP connections get opened, but about 60 of them get closed by ircd a few
> > seconds after that (the others get in fine).
> 
> s_bsd.c:read_listener()
> 	max = 10;
> #if defined(SLOW_ACCEPT)
>         max = 1;
> #endif
> 	while (max--)
>         {
> 		accept()
> 	}
> 
> If you raise that 10, it should accept clients faster.
> 
> Also note that if you require ident or something to connect that
> your identd might decide to stop because it thinks it's under an
> attack.
> 
> 
> Kurt
> 
>