UPDATE: Broke the 250k barrier, too :] The node.js powered sprites fun continues, with a new milestone: That’s right, 100,004 active connections! Note the low %CPU and %MEM numbers in the picture. To be fair, the CPU usage does wander between about 5% and 40% – but it’s also not a very beefy box. This is on a $0.12/hr rackspace 2GB cloud server. Each connection simulates sending a single sprite ev