Show HN: RaspChat a chat system that can handle thousands of users on basic RPi
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Re: Show HN: RaspChat a chat system that can handle thousands of users on basic RPi
#2That's pretty slick looking. I realy like the interface.
I find it hard to believe a Pi can handle thousands of concurrent users though. How does it handle that?
Re: Show HN: RaspChat a chat system that can handle thousands of users on basic RPi
#3Which parts are Go and which parts are Node?
Re: Show HN: RaspChat a chat system that can handle thousands of users on basic RPi
#4Which parts are Go and which parts are Node?
Backend and server is compiled in Go, NodeJS is only used for asset compilation (for frontend) and minification.
Re: Show HN: RaspChat a chat system that can handle thousands of users on basic RPi
#5That's pretty slick looking. I realy like the interface. I find it hard to believe a Pi can handle thousands of concurrent users though. How does it handle that?
Good to hear you like it. Server is written to be lightweight and keeping things simple helped a lot. NodeJS totally sucked memory, Golang helped a lot in that perspective.
Re: Show HN: RaspChat a chat system that can handle thousands of users on basic RPi
#6That's pretty slick looking. I realy like the interface. I find it hard to believe a Pi can handle thousands of concurrent users though. How does it handle that?
Good to hear you like it. Server is written to be lightweight and keeping things simple helped a lot. NodeJS totally sucked memory, Golang helped a lot in that perspective.
Got server load averages? how much ram is used?
Re: Show HN: RaspChat a chat system that can handle thousands of users on basic RPi
#7Earlier quoted context omitted.
Good to hear you like it. Server is written to be lightweight and keeping things simple helped a lot. NodeJS totally sucked memory, Golang helped a lot in that perspective.
Got server load averages? how much ram is used?
1K parallel connections were handled under 100MB of memory. 2K were around 150MB
Re: Show HN: RaspChat a chat system that can handle thousands of users on basic RPi
#8This chat is pretty cool I especially enjoy the "/gif" command.
Re: Show HN: RaspChat a chat system that can handle thousands of users on basic RPi
#9This chat is pretty cool I especially enjoy the "/gif" command.
Yep syntax is /gif
Re: Show HN: RaspChat a chat system that can handle thousands of users on basic RPi
#10WARNING: yes, i am going to be THAT guy...
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It amazes me that "thousands" of users sending simple messages is considered impressive nowadays on a machine with a xxxxMHz CPU and at least xxxMB ram.
This was being done decades ago on xxMB ram and xxxMHz.
sister comment says 100MB/1K connections, 150MB for 2K, so 50KB/connection and 50MB fixed cost?!!?
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Dump Javascript/Go/$RANDOM_LATEST_BUZZWORD_7 and learn how to program [in C] if you actually want an impressive number of users per MHz/per MB
This is doable on a Cortex-M4 and an ethernet MAC...