[Standards] s2s and gracelessly broken streams

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Richard Dobson wrote:
> 
>> But why?
>> Everyone says that keeping open TCP connections is bad. Could anyone
>> give me an explanation?
>>
>> Why is that few hundreds open s2s connections so evil, while we do keep
>> several thousands c2s connections open doing no harm?
>>   
> Because there is no point keeping them open if traffic is not using the 
> connection, i.e. messages, presence or iq, only keeping open connections 
> that are actually being used means you get better scalability and 
> resource usage.
> 

Correct.

At this moment, the jabber.org server has 2933 server connections open. 
That number would be MUCH higher if we did not opportunistically close 
connections that were no longer needed.

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
XMPP Standards Foundation
http://www.xmpp.org/xsf/people/stpeter.shtml

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