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I was looking into APE and they have a socket library that creates a socket server. Is there a tutorial on how to go about creating this so that the socket server is always running? and how well does it scale?

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Mmmm, not sure what are you looking for. The socket server looks pretty straightforward!

http://www.ape-project.org/docs/server/sockets/sockserver.html

About the scaling, I don't know, but they claim it scales (vertically) to more than 100,000 concurrent clients.

Davide
Yea i read that, but how do you always keep the socket server running?
Faisal Abid
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If you are running it in Linux you might want to look up the nohup command nohup [command] &

Drew LeSueur