What does that mean? You keep qualifying "connections." It's a connection. It holds onto it's connection for X period of time. An HTTP request is just a single-request connection, which is NOT what this article is discussing.
I admit I didn't first see that they actually don't do any i/o over those connections.
Well, you know, handling x accepts() per second and holding onto y fds is even less than nothing to be proud of.
What does that mean? You keep qualifying "connections." It's a connection. It holds onto it's connection for X period of time. An HTTP request is just a single-request connection, which is NOT what this article is discussing.