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Hi Dean,
we noticed that when performing an "npm install" against ProGet it will successively open ~1000 sessions.
We tried a couple of values for Web.ConcurrentRequestLimit under "Administration --> Advanced Setting" (20, 50, 100, 200) and found out, that when using 100 we get the same (or even better) performance for an "npm install" compared to registry.npmjs.org. We're not exactly sure how Web.ConcurrentRequestLimit works but we assume that it has some relation to the default pool size for the SQL Server connection used by ProGet, which also seems to be 100.
I just wanted to let you know, that by setting Web.ConcurrentRequestLimit to 100 the performance of "npm install" is back to normal.
Best,
Andreas