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Yes, here is the original 1999 snapshot. It has been updated a bunch over the years.

http://web.archive.org/web/19990508164301/http://www.kegel.c...

I think Dan wrote this page originally when he was at Disappearing, Inc. Later he was at Google (2004-10).

Mmm. It has been updated over the years, but of course, 10K was relatively easy even back then. For fun one day, I turned off the search index on one of the production machines and hit over 90K at Napster without much trouble (production ran at ~36K). And that was on little dual processor Pentium 2 machines.

If you dont have a blog I think you should blog some stories from those days. I'd be really interested to hear them.

Arguably (2009) at the earliest. Was certainly originally written earlier but it seems like something of a living document. The first sentence after the table of contents is:

"See Nick Black's execellent Fast UNIX Servers page for a circa-2009 look at the situation."

I was definitely using this page as a resource in 2000-2001. I was going to try and use Python Medusa module (precursor of Twisted) to scale connections.