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Eric
Eric

Reputation: 1268

Max numbers of connections / threads on my TCP / IP server?

I am curious about whether my server would work better on Linux or Windows, from what I have read Windows only supports around 2,000 connections/threads while I have not seen much information about how many threads / connections Linux can handle.

Is there any advantages to using Linux over Windows other than stability / security for my TCP /IP server?

Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 609

Answers (3)

MarkR
MarkR

Reputation: 63538

I would imagine that the primary concern when building a high-scale application is the experience of the engineers on your team, including operations engineers. By all means consider performance when selecting a platform, but the experience and preference of your development and operations engineers is probably more important - after all, they will need to maintain and operate the service respectively.

In any case, if you have a real need for a service with 2000 concurrent clients, it probably has some high availability requirement which means it can't be run on a single server anyway.

Upvotes: 0

kbyrd
kbyrd

Reputation: 3351

Threads and sockets are different resources, the limits for each will depend not just on Linux vs Windows but also which versions of each OS you are using. Also, if you're using a class library instead of raw socket or thread APIs, those might impose a specific limit. As an example early versions of CSocket in MFC created a hidden window for each socket, so you were effectively limited to the number of GDI resources on the system.

Upvotes: 2

John Zwinck
John Zwinck

Reputation: 249123

Either platform will be fine, and most apps will never get big enough to need more than a single server to run them anyway. Get your project done in whichever way is easier for you.

Upvotes: 2

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