5 ms·IRC servers are single threaded. You have contention at that point.by xena 3y agoIRC servers are single threaded. You have contention at that point.goalieca 3y agoSome of the bigger irc channels have thousand users and this was in the day of 128MB of ram.pinkgolem 3y agoSure it's possible. But you need to test... For example there was/is a 1k file descriptor limit per process in a lot of distributions..