Hm. Still, 80k per box is nothing to sniff at, especially with Python. I've been using Ruby's EventMachine, I can get it up to about C20k before it blows up, b

Hm. Still, 80k per box is nothing to sniff at, especially with Python. I've been using Ruby's EventMachine, I can get it up to about C20k before it blows up, but that's local only, remains to be seen what proper connections will do. Haven't tried multiple processes yet. As for IPC I just dump everything into AMQP, whose fanout exchanges seem practically designed for IRC : D Hm, anyway, thanks for the info. Really cool to hear python stretching that far.