Using multiprocessing I've been able to quite easily saturate a 20GBps Ec2 NICs in python. https://github.com/NewbiZ/s3pd https://github.com/NewbiZ/s3pd There

Using multiprocessing I've been able to quite easily saturate a 20GBps Ec2 NICs in python. https://github.com/NewbiZ/s3pd https://github.com/NewbiZ/s3pd There is no reason why multiprocessing for IO in python would use _crazily_ more memory than in an other language, when done properly.