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Impressive.

However I think there's still plenty of room to grow.

320,000 concurrent sessions isn't that much by modern standards. You can get 12 million concurrent connections on one linux machine, and push 1gigabit of data.

Also, 167 megabytes per second (116B * 14.4 million) is not pushing the limits of what one machine can do. I've been able to process 680 megabytes per second of data into a custom video database, plus write it to disk on one 2010 machine. That's doing heavy processing at the same time on the video with plenty of CPU to spare.

PCIe over fibre can do many transactions messages per second. You can fit 2TB memory machines in 1U (and more).

Since this is a memory + eventually dump to disk database, I think there is still a lot of room to grow.

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