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[api]

I'd like to see them fix the other scalability problems: hard coded maximum numbers of interfaces, socket API scaling issues, etc. You should be able to open as many sockets as you have RAM and push as much data as you have CPU to do so. A huge machine should be able to do fifty million TCP connections.

[brianwawok → api]

are you sending the same data to 50 million people? I don't see you doing much computing for 50 mIllino clients even on great hardware.

[jessaustin → brianwawok]

This might be the sort of thing that is hard to imagine using before it's available, but it gets used eventually anyway...

[SEJeff → brianwawok]

I could see this relatively obvious to use for a static proxy like varnish or maybe squid. Static html doesn't require much processing and this seems workable given the right hardware / software stack.

[api → brianwawok]

There are many use cases for having lots of connections open that aren't doing much: chat apps, IoT, pub/sub busses, etc.