Re: Reminder: 10 Year Anniversary next year

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Gavin Henry wrote:
> <quote who="Pierangelo Masarati">
> > Gavin Henry wrote:
> > > Dear All,
> > >
> > > Just a reminder for next year for us to think of something grand to do!
> > > ;-)
> > Well, a grand thing for the 10th anniversary would have been
> > multi-master, but Howard anticipated it ;)
> >
> > BTW: we keep advertising it as N-way, but it's actually limited to
> > 4096-way }-)
>
> Limits? Since when did we have limits? ;-)

Considering that a mesh of 256 fully connected servers would consume the full 
16 bits of TCP port number space, I think most deployments will run out of 
other resources long before they run into our limits. (And if it ever becomes 
an issue, we can deploy separate listener threads per listening interface to 
keep things humming along.)
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