How to stop running out of ephemeral ports and love long-lived connections
28000 ephemeral ports is enough for the c10k problem, but 100k+ seems a stretch. At what point is increasing the number of ports from 28k to a higher number the right answer? Reuse as described here sounds like a useful optimization but at some point (or due to pathological workload) even that will be exhausted I’d think? What to do then