The C10K problem
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It's time for web servers to handle ten thousand clients simultaneously,
don't you think? After all, the web is a big place now.
And computers are big, too. You can buy a 1000MHz machine
with 2 gigabytes of RAM and an 1000Mbit/sec Ethernet card for $1200 or so.
Let's see - at 20000 clients, that's
50KHz, 100Kbytes, and 50Kbits/sec per client.
It shouldn't take any more horsepower than that to take four kilobyt...
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