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What Breaks When a Self-Hosted LLM Gateway Hits 1,000 Concurrent Streams

SitePoint·Talha Anwar·about 3 hours ago
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Talha Anwar

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November 10, 2026

· Updated: November 10, 2026

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We sent 1,000 streaming calls at the same moment through three self-hosted LLM gateways: the Langfuse AI Gateway, the LiteLLM proxy and AcruxCore. Each gateway was limited to 2 CPUs. As shipped, Langfuse finished 261 of the 1,000 streams and LiteLLM finished 403. Neither failure came from the gateway's own code.

Langfuse's failures came from Linux's open-file limit, which Docker sets to 1,024 by default.…

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