An ode to Erlang

[PeterL]

But the OS you run Erlang on, may have some problems with the total number
of file descriptors (one per TCP-connection). How many file descriptors 
is it
possble to have on a standard Linux/FreeBSD machine with 512 MB RAM?

Simon Chappell wrote:

>On 4/19/05, Thomas Lindgren <thomasl_erlang@REDACTED> wrote:
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>>http://wagerlabs.com/2005/04/how-to-compete-with-big-boys.html
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>>Nice. I suspect you will _also_ find that a single
>>server has a quite satisfying capacity all by itself.
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>True, but as Joe likes to point out, without multiple servers, there
>is no redundancy. :-)
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>Simon
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