How many requests per seconds can Linux hosting support

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I am writing network game. Suppose there are 500 users. Each user sends one HTTP Get request each 5 seconds. So I have 100 requests per second. Is it a big digit? Ansi C Linux cgi-bin program works on the server side. Each request reads/writes about 100 byte from 2-3 files.

How many requests can Linux server support? Can someone recommend me fast Linux hosting? Thanks!

This totally depend on your software+network+hardware. Not on linux itself. — Denys Séguret, Jan 18 '13 at 12:54
Note that using a `cgi-bin` style program is going to be about the *least* performant solution you can choose, since it requires starting up the program for every individual request. — larsks, Jan 18 '13 at 13:18
Consider using FASTCGI not CGI .... to avoid having lots of processes — Basile Starynkevitch, Jan 18 '13 at 18:35

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

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The limitations of the Linux operating system itself are in order of several thousand connections at time, but it is less clear how fast they could be serviced. A dedicated not old web server with wiki engine using database backend can easily service about ten requests per second and probably more.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

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answered Jan 18 '13 at 13:14

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