max concurrent scp sessions - and testing methodology for them...

From: Joe Schmoe (non_secure_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/30/04

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    I have read several documents on the number of
    concurrent https sessions a FreeBSD system is capable
    of.

    However, I wonder how well this relates to how many
    ssh sessions (scp file transfers, specifically) that a
    FreeBSD server can handle. Can anyone throw out some
    basic numbers for this ? Assuming a 1ghz p3 and 2gigs
    of RAM, and assuming that everyone is transferring a
    totally different file. (so there is no amount of
    cache hits - everything comes straight off the drives)

    I would think the major bottleneck would be disk - you
    would start chugging the disks far before you used up
    all the CPU on a 1ghz p3 ... but what is the second
    bottleneck ? Is it cpu, or is it ram (or mbufs, etc.)

    Would it be a reasonable test to just start up scp
    sessions from the machine to itself and then divide
    the number of sessions you can acceptably create by
    the number 2 ? Or is this somehow a flawed test ?

    Any additional comments (kernel tunes, settings, war
    stories) are greatly appreciated.

                    
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