If you read the article, in the third or so paragraph.
> What this means, performance-wise, is that measuring requests per second gets a lot more attention than connections per second. Usually, the latter can be one or two orders of magnitude lower than the former. Correspondingly, benchmarks use long-living connections to simulate multiple requests from the same device.
Yeah, what's being discussed here are connections without any i/o over them. Just an fd lingering somewhere in an epoll pool. Which obviuosly is even less taxing. So your point is?
> What this means, performance-wise, is that measuring requests per second gets a lot more attention than connections per second. Usually, the latter can be one or two orders of magnitude lower than the former. Correspondingly, benchmarks use long-living connections to simulate multiple requests from the same device.