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GameRanger has six million users, tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of whom will be active simultaneously. His chat problem involved has moderate fan-o
by jacques_chester 12y ago
GameRanger has six million users, tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of whom will be active simultaneously. His chat problem involved has moderate fan-out.
Scott Kevill does it on a single machine (last time I checked) with hand-rolled C++ and close attention to the details of how the Linux networking stack works.
- marktangotango 12y agoVery interesting, do you have links available?
- pratikch 12y agoI am also interested to know, Do you've any links on this?
- jacques_chester 12y agoScott gets very little press -- mostly when he picks up support for games after the publisher or matchmaking service abandons one. I used to live in Perth and we'd sometimes hang out and mock the front page of HN. http://www.gameranger.com/about/ http://www.gameranger.com/about/
- itsbits 12y agoSingle Machine??...really...would love to know more about the stack..