Request can be limiting it, see pool.maxSockets.

I'd suggest to use 'net' module for that and implement http protocol 
manually. Request module is a bit too heavy for that.


On Saturday, November 2, 2013 1:53:18 AM UTC+4, Dan wrote:
>
> Hey,
>
> I'm coding a proxy server checker.
>
> In order to check a proxy, I need to connect to it using "request" module, 
> and perform several requests.
>
> The goal is to be able to check thousands of proxies in short amount of 
> time.
>
> I was hoping to test 1,000 proxies concurrently. I did the following 
> configs:
> http.globalAgent.maxSockets = 100000;
> events.EventEmitter.prototype._maxListeners = 100000;
>
> and I execute 1,000 requests using async.queue.
>
> I also set the open file descriptors to a really high limit... Another 
> thing I do is I set a timeout for each proxy for 30 secs...
>
> Anyway, what happens is that the first requests are performed well and 
> then I start getting a lot of ETIMEDOUT & ESOCKETTIMEDOUT.
>
> I checked the amout of open files for my node process:
> pidof node
> lsof -p 3730 | grep TCP | wc -l
>
> And I check it periodically during the execution. It looks like I always 
> get stuck on average of 30 sockets. It seems like something is limiting my 
> requests to work. And then, when a turn of a request comes, it simply 
> refuses to work because it's already timedout.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks.
>

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