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EFNet Reaches 100,000 Concurrent Connections

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the thats-a-lotta-people-looking-for-pr0n dept.

Mortin writes "The largest IRC network in the world, EFNet, has set another world-record max user count after breaking an astonishing 100,000 concurrent users earlier tonight!"

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  1. Not necessarily good... by David+Price · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...after breaking an astonishing 100,000 concurrent users earlier tonight!

    I sure hope they fixed them all afterward.

  2. With the new Linux kernel... by ralmeida · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...they can do it in 2 seconds!

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  3. 100,000? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    100,000 concurrent threads?
    100,000 concurrent irc sessions?

    I guess the next article is gonna be:

    100,000th Geek Marries Non-Mailorder Bride

  4. 100,000 Connections, but... by EQ · · Score: 5, Funny

    90,000 of them were warez, mp3 and chan-op war bots. ;-)

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    1. Re:100,000 Connections, but... by evilviper · · Score: 3, Funny

      No, actually it's all my fault. I was using GAIM's IRC plugin, recently ported as an alpha release for Windows. I was using a beta version of Perl for scripting, and everything went haywire for some strange reason. Suddenly, it just decided to open up 65,535 connections to EFnet... Boy that sucked... I mean, come on... how lowsy can open source software be?

      It was already an alpha release, GAIM should have worked flawlessly, with less CPU power, and taking up less bandwidth than any other program on the planet.

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  5. And you know what... by rbruels · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...it was a Saturday night! 100,000 geeks without social lives, tonight on EFnet! :P

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    1. Re:And you know what... by Timmeh · · Score: 4, Funny
      It's sad but true. Last night I was on IRC and a net-buddy was bemoaning that there wasn't anyone on any of the CS/DoD servers he frequents, saying that it being a Saturday night the servers should be packed. I said, if we were normal people that would be totally backwards, we'd all be out on dates. But since we're geeks, yeah that sounds about right. Then my brother walked in and said something funny about how he could cook an egg on his overclocked Athlon, and I in response I said, "Lol," instead of chuckling.

      Dear god I need to get out more. :P

  6. Re:Efnet summed up in one line. by Karamchand · · Score: 3, Funny

    You will. Just go to this site.

  7. Dear CmdrTaco... by iolaire_in_swe · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are you on crack? :)

    Yours sincerely

    iolaire, QuakeNet operator

    iolaire@quakenet.org

    PS:
    -Q(TheQBot@CServe.quakenet.org)- Currently Active Users: 113025
    -Q(TheQBot@CServe.quakenet.org)- Max Active Users: 118905 (Sunday, 2002-09-15 19:00:36)

  8. Not a coincidence? by Ed+Avis · · Score: 3, Funny

    I suppose they were launching one thread for each concurrent user?

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  9. Meanwhile... by PurpleBob · · Score: 3, Funny

    50,000 of those users had a minute and a half of lag.

    30,000 were in the middle of the connect process, waiting for identd to time out, because identd never works and their client wasn't l33t enough to give the necessary fake responses.

    The other 20,000 had a netsplit immediately after they counted.

    Yay for way-too-big IRC networks.

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