Has anyone been able to connect to significantly more than 350 distinct
nodes on Stable?

Ever since muxing and its reduced connection overhead made it into
Stable, I've noticed a pattern with my node's connections. It'll peak
somewhere in the range of 350 distinct nodes connected, even though
there are plenty of connection slots open. Here's my current status,

Connections open (Inbound/Outbound/Limit) 417 (379/38/512)
Number of distinct nodes connected 333

I still have almost 100 open connection slots, but they're sitting
around unused. Prior to muxing, all 512 connection slots would fill up
pretty quickly and stay that way, so it's not that the node can't handle
512 connections. With recent builds I'll hit 300 distinct nodes, usually
around 400 connections, within an hour or so of starting the node; then
it stops growing. The current uptime is 6 hours.

At first I thought that maybe it's because my node stays close to 100%
load due to output bandwidth limiting, so maybe I'm rejecting any
attempted new connections. That theory doesn't seem to hold water,
though; I reach and remain at almost 100% load within a couple minutes of
starting up the node. If load was the issue, I'd never make it as far as
350 nodes connected, it would logically be far fewer, and random instead
of the pattern I've been seeing.

Am I correct in guessing that if there were more Stable nodes, or at
least more Stable nodes compatible with the current protocol revision,
I'd be connected to them? Or is there a limiting factor built into fred?
I appreciate that it's not really possible to determine the true number
of nodes, but from my node's perspective, it doesn't seem like there are
more than ~350 at any point in time.

Thanks for any insight!

-s
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