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Call me when you can get 1 million concurrent connections using 1.3 GB of user space memory with ws.

Hint: at 500k ws consumes all memory in my computer and the GC stalls are constant. My system start to freeze and my mouse cursor is no longer responding.

I can have 1 million connections with uws at the same time I'm watching cat clips on youtube, listening to spotify and having my complete IDE up and running.

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For 100k connections your own benchmarks showed a different story. Now I didn't try with 1 million and I guess it gets worse so I trust you but I can try with removing the upgrade request, the event emitter, etc from ws to start at least with a fair comparison.

If you don't like it, don't use it.

It's your idea of transparency which I don't like, not your project.

A million connections into the computer that you work on? Are these bot net connections, or do use your machine as your server?

I test the user space memory scalability by connecting 1 million localhost connections on the same machine.

Btw, 1.3 GB is for the Node.js addon - the native server does 1 million connections using less than 300 mb of user space memory.

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