[ILUG] windows vs. linux comparison

[Padraig Brady]

Ray Kelly wrote:

> On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, Waider wrote:
> 
> 
>>According to John P. Looney:
>>
>>> on Windows (win2000 workstation). Padraig here reckon's it's because
>>>windows has a short listen queue (of five), and Linux/Solaris don't have a
>>>limit...try it on linux, and you should be able to get to three or four
>>>hundred concurrent connections before it has trouble.
>>>
>>Are you sure it isn't anything to do with the restriction Microsoft places
>>on connections to non-server-licensed machines? Just a thought...
>>
> 
> NT4 & 2k workstation have a max number of incoming connections restriction
> of between somewhere 5 & 10.


Are you sure about this. Is this any incomming connections, connections
to a particular port, or is it just IIS that limits the connections?
We've run a web server(imatix) on Win2K workstation here and made loads
of conncurrent connections to it fine. My theory is that it's only IIS
on workstation which limits connections to 10. Note apache has a listen
backlog parameter that seems to be ignored on doze?

Padraig.