I'd say the 2M claim is pure simple BS. Anyone who's gonna make such a
site, would know the deal. This is question is more like " Does jruby
scale ?" - in a totally twisted way ( and kinda lame ).

On 8/6/07, Gregory Brown <gregory.t.brown / gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/6/07, Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter / sun.com> wrote:
> > Dafi-Duck wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am working on a new project built on websphere portal.
> > > I need to be able to have about 2 million concurrent users.
> > > If I use JRuby, will it work?
> >
> > I thought I replied on google groups somewhere, but I can't find it now.
> > At any rate...
> >
> > Yes, JRuby will "work". Whether it (or Rails in any form) will scale to
> > 2 million concurrent users is a huge question mark. You're talking about
> > whole server farms to handle that, and JRuby isn't likely to be your
> > biggest problem. Perhaps you mean 2 million registered users and some
> > much smaller percentage of concurrent users?
>
> Out of curiosity, are there any sites in the world that handle 2
> million *concurrent* users?  That seems absolutely wild to me, and it
> seems like any service that would have such a high load (maybe a cable
> company's software or something) would be decentralized.
>
>


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