At the time Slashdot was a thing, web servers could serve dozens, maybe a hundred requests per second. Near to the end of (real) Slashdot's life, project 10k w

At the time Slashdot was a thing, web servers could serve dozens, maybe a hundred requests per second. Near to the end of (real) Slashdot's life, project 10k was happening. People were rewriting even the Linux process management to make servers perform close to their theoretic capacities.