slivuz
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179 means that while app holding and communicating to 1 million persistent connections it is still able to process 100+ standard requests per second. pretty enough to accept new clients to your online game, audio/video chat, podcast etc.
this graph shows how many requests per second app may process depending on amount of established persistent connections:
https://raw.github.com/slivu/1mc2/master/results/requests-pe...
> Starting with Ruby 1.9.3, the GC in mainstream ruby can also be tuned
http://www.web-l.nl/posts/15-tuning-ruby-s-garbage-collector...
continue with Ruby as backend for audio/video chats...
consider Ruby for streaming podcasts...
etc. etc.