Incoming chat message que maximums

[BarryCarlyon]

@gigablox

Do we instantiate multiple TMI clients using the same credentials like this and shard channels over those clients?

Yes

@gigablox

Does each constructor return a unique connection with it’s own incoming message queue buffer or is the buffer shared between the two. Is the buffer throttled at the account level or at the connection level?

Each connectiong will recieve the messages for the rooms that that connection has JOINed

So
Connection 1 in rooms foo and bar
Connection 2 in rooms cake and pie
Connection 3 in rooms cake and lemon

Connection 2 will not recieved messages from foo and bar.
Connection 2 and 3 will recieved messages for cake as both connections are in cake
Connection 3 will get lemon but not pie.

So

@gigablox

unique connection with it’s own incoming message queue buffer

Yes.

Then it’s just down to what the server can handle in terms of traffic not just the given process keeping up.

@gigablox

Are there limitations to how many TMI clients are instantiated from a single server using the same credentials?

Broadly speaking:

Rate limit is by “IP” so you have a shared rate limit across all the connections from the same server, broadly speaking.

Discussing rate limit can get complicated very quickly.