C1M is the new C10K. C10K is not even close to being a real problem any more. I expect my phone can handle 10K connections. Making a million outbound connecti

C1M is the new C10K. C10K is not even close to being a real problem any more. I expect my phone can handle 10K connections. Making a million outbound connections, on the other hand, requires a little more care. Mostly because you need 16+ IPs. I ended up writing a small tool in C with libevent to make 1M http connections: http://www.metabrew.com/article/a-million-user-comet-application-with-mochiweb-part-3 http://www.metabrew.com/article/a-million-user-comet-applica...