Building a Scalable (100K+ User) Socket Server in .Net

[Chris Mullins]

One of the things I've spent the last several years working on is a highly
scalable socket server written in C#.

The SoapBox Server has recently been tested to well over 100k simultanous
users. This means it's handling 100k TCP connections on a Windows Platform
without any trouble at all.

I finally got around to writing a blog post that describes the different
architectures we've gone through, and the pros and cons of each. All of
these architectures scale fairly well, but there have been some surprising
results. These architectures have included using the system threadpool,
managing our own thread pool, doing work on the IOCP threads, and a few
other things thrown in for good luck.

I've seen so many people asking for guidance in this area, and I hope this
serves people as a good starting point.

http://makeashorterlink.com/?R2EE5246D

All feedback is welcome, either here or on the blog...

 

[Nick Malik [Microsoft]]

Hi Chris,

Just so you know, the short link to your blog entry is below. You don't
have to use a link shortener to allow folks to find the entry.

http://www.coversant.net/dotnetnuke/Coversant/Blogs/tabid/88/EntryID/10/Default.aspx

After you make the post to the blog, go back to your blog home page. You'll
see the list of your recent posts with a summary or the first few sentences
under each. Simply grab the link from there.

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