D'oh, from TFP: This code (mochiconntest_web.erl) just accepts connections and uses chunked transfer to send an initial welcome message, and one message every 1

D'oh, from TFP: This code (mochiconntest_web.erl) just accepts connections and uses chunked transfer to send an initial welcome message, and one message every 10 seconds to every client. 1000000 / 10 = 100000 writes per second to a client on a connected socket. My guesstimate is it's not that much :) Based on this graph: http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/libevent-benchmark2.jpg http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/libevent-benchmark2.jpg [BTW sorry for replying to my own comment, and sorry I didn't read TFA.]