[httperf] Re: Connection rate is very low

[Rick Jones]

On 10/23/2012 08:23 AM, Tim Terrill wrote:

>
> Bottom line is: you must keep the number of used ports under the Max
> (around 65k) in any given TIME_WAIT period of time.

Per IPpair and well-known port triple.

When enhancing the SPECweb96 (yes, the issue of TIME_WAIT reuse goes 
back a very long time...) code to make explicit bind() calls to use the 
range of 5000 to 65535 became insufficient, we further enhanced it to 
start using multiple client IP addresses.  That is, it started calling 
bind() not just with INADDR_ANY and a port number but a specific IP 
address and a port number (cycling through the range), and it started 
using more than one IP address.

Just prior to that, we simply used multiple load generators/clients and 
got additional IP addresses involved that way.  But it led to very 
under-utilized load generators and a higher cost of benchmarking.  Thus, 
using multiple IP addresses on the load generators.

happy benchmarking,

rick jones