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One obstacle is that you cannot have one million open sockets (for long polling) at the same time on one node. I don't know how easy this is to mitigate.


You can have a million open sockets in Erlang, although it requires serious RAM: http://www.metabrew.com/article/a-million-user-comet-applica...


Hmm. The changes are posted through comet in continuous replication? That would mean another distribution system would be better for heavily published nodes.




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