@perro started 15 parallell queue daemons on #quitter.es to handle this:
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| transport | tc |
+-----------+-----+
| deluser | 1 |
| salmon | 6 |
| hubprep | 21 |
| pushin | 24 |
| ping | 37 |
| hubout | 241 |
| ostatus | 470 |
| distrib | 747 |
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