System can't take more than 5k req /sec

[Jason Price]

So, through some TCP tuning we've been able to get to 20k/s.  Though I
needed to get up to 8k threads per pool.

Many docs say 'Don't go more than 4k threads'.  Can someone explain
that?  Anyone have experience with 8-10k threads?

--Jason

On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 10:41 PM, Jason Price <japrice at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, April 29, 2014, Norberto Meijome <numard at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Have you ruled out AWS limits? Putting varnish aside for a minute, can you
>> handle 5k/sec TCP conns with something like nginx +static files.?
>
> This is an excellent question.  I'll see what kind of answer I'll get to it.
>
> -Jason