Asynchronous Streaming TCP Server

Question

I want to create a high-performance server in C #, which can take about ~ 10 thousand clients. Now I started writing TcpServer with C #, and for each client connection I open a new thread. I also use a single thread to receive connections. So far so good, works great.

The server needs to deserialize the incoming AMF objects, execute some logic (for example, keep the player’s position) and send some object back (serialize the objects). I am not worried about serializing / deserializing the atm part.

My main problem is that I will have many threads with 10k clients, and I read somewhere that the OS can only contain a few hunderd threads.

Are there sources / articles for writing a decent asynchronous streaming server? Are there other options or will 10k streams work? I looked on google, but I could not find much information about design patterns or ways that explain this clearly.

Answer 1

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• You cannot deploy 10,000 threads for several reasons. This will cause the kernel scheduler to crash. If you use 32-bit then the default address space of the stack is 1 MB, which means that 10k streams will reserve about 10 GB of address space. It will not succeed.

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