Making 1 milion requests with aiohttp/asyncio - literally

Question

I followed up this tutorial: https://pawelmhm.github.io/asyncio/python/aiohttp/2016/04/22/asyncio-aiohttp.html and everything works fine when I am doing like 50 000 requests. Bu

Answer 1

asyncio is memory bound (like any other program). You can not spawn more task that memory can hold. My guess is that you hit a memory limit. Check dmesg for more information.

1 millions RPS doesn't mean there is 1M tasks. A task can do several request in the same second.