I haven't read through the forum thread as there are ten pages and much of it seems off-topic. But the requests per second doesn't even matter here, the fact th

I haven't read through the forum thread as there are ten pages and much of it seems off-topic. But the requests per second doesn't even matter here, the fact that you were capable of maxing the CPU at all shows me you did something wrong. I easily get 12k requests on an i7 box and the CPU wasn't even stressed then. Eventually it was IO that limited it.