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xentronium on Aug 3, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Rails 4 Live Streaming is a Big Deal

> total number of clients = total number of workers, since each client permanently ties up a connection forever

Totally up to your application server. Actual formula is number of clients = total number of threads. It is up to app server to handle parallel requests.

masklinn on Aug 3, 2012 [–]

> Actual formula is number of clients = total number of threads.

That's what I said/meant by "worker", whether it's a thread or process does not matter, it pretty much has to be an OS-level concurrency primitive.

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