What's with the 128 player limit?

[Paladorin]

Hi,
I am interested to know what spec the server is actually..?

A mention there earlier of 4.5 GHz (which is fast)
However a more standard server 2.0 GHz can easily take the 128 connections limit, am I right?

What I am trying to ask is if the limit (which has been increased by scripting of some kind) is CPU power driven or I/O driven or Memory driven?

People's credits incr/decr and inventory changes all affect I/O as they are rarely lost in crashes or downtime...(that i have seen anyway)
Therefore is the I/O a factor in limiting the connections to the system and could the I/O balance be improved by distributing the data that is fetched and stored?
i.e.
Similar to what large databases do such as place indexes on a separate I/O device in a cluster system..

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