Re: [Openvpn-users] Re: Re: Scalability?

[Jamie Lokier <jamie@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mario Gonzalez wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-03-02 at 02:42 -0600, Charles Duffy wrote:
> > On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 08:51:45 +0100, Mario Gonzalez wrote:
> > 
> > > What I was thinking of was more concerning the hardware requirements for
> > > such a large number of clients. What would the memory footprint and CPU
> > > load be? How much would we need to keep in memory for each connection?
> > 
> > There's another post I wrote a while ago that seems to drop into the
> > ether. It didn't include any hard numbers -- but on doing a bit of
> > very light testing, it appears that the marginal memory use for each
> > connecting client (on Linux ia32) is about 132K. That means that 10,000
> > clients will require about 1.3GB of RAM -- nothing to sniff at, but by no
> > means unrealistic either.
> 
> Ok. This sounds quite promising. I will be doing some preliminary tests
> this week (IF I can get it up and running).

Do let us know the results!

If you get figures for memory per client, that'd be handy for anyone
doing lots of clients, to decide how big a machine they'll need.  Same
for CPU per client.

-- Jamie

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