That means that the server will run out of ports at roughly 65,000 clients.
I wrote the justin.tv chat server (which happens to be based on irc). A single one of our chat machines can handle about 120,000 concurrent connections. Available cpu is the limit, not number of ports.
I wrote the justin.tv chat server (which happens to be based on irc). A single one of our chat machines can handle about 120,000 concurrent connections. Available cpu is the limit, not number of ports.