[headius]

Here's a case study showing over 500k connections to a Java instance in 2.5GB of memory using NIO. JRuby's implementation of Ruby's IO is implemented directly atop NIO. So yeah...that 15GB assertion is nonsense.

http://urbanairship.com/blog/2010/08/24/c500k-in-action-at-u...

[slivuz]

you right, sorry for pointless blaming, my bad, had to check it first. updating orignal post