Megacomet
Infrastructure
comet server
SHOW HN2011
13points
10comments
#682of 1,097 in 2011
Top 63%of 2011 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
0 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 4 comments about the project.
Performance: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Low memory use per queued message
From 1 comment
Those are orthogonal stats, true. More relevant is queued messages vs RAM used, which i'm quite happy with: 1m messages = 65m ram. Also think about the 1000 msgs/sec vs 5% cpu,…
chubs on HN
Objections
No consumers yet, so queuing benchmark is not meaningful
From 1 comment
I think the argument is that queuing should be cheap and the consumers should actually use the CPU. He has no consumers yet, he just fires messages like crazy and they are left…
darklajid on HN
Benchmark targets localhost only
From 1 comment
I think the argument is that queuing should be cheap and the consumers should actually use the CPU. He has no consumers yet, he just fires messages like crazy and they are left…
darklajid on HN
Questions
How can 1 million queued messages use only 5% CPU
From 1 comment
How is it good to have 1million queued messages but only utilize 5% of the cpu?
Meai on HN
How 65535 connection limit applies to concurrent connections
From 1 comment
For a long time I thought there was a limit of 65535 concurrent connections, but I learnt today that it is for local ports only. Now I'm confused. Doesn't accept() create a local…
teyc on HN