Here's a case study showing over 500k connections to a Java instance in 2.5GB of memory using NIO. JRuby's implementation of Ruby's IO is implemented directly a

Here's a case study showing over 500k connections to a Java instance in 2.5GB of memory using NIO. JRuby's implementation of Ruby's IO is implemented directly atop NIO. So yeah...that 15GB assertion is nonsense. http://urbanairship.com/blog/2010/08/24/c500k-in-action-at-urban-airship/ http://urbanairship.com/blog/2010/08/24/c500k-in-action-at-u...