Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 03:46:24 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net> Cc: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, r.hyunseog@ieee.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Interesting article. Message-ID: <3AD97C00.EF3A91FF@elischer.org> References: <200104101733.NAA09610@renown.cnchost.com> <3AD90C59.53E7DB55@DougBarton.net>
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Doug Barton wrote: > > Bakul Shah wrote: > > > > >From the top level page I read hotmail handles 550,000 change > > requests a day. Later in the article they say they have a > > 5000 server farm. That translates to 110 change requests a > > day on average per server. If the peak rate is 10 times the > > average, that is still only about 1100 requests/server/day or > > about 78 seconds on average. This rate seems quite low even > > when you account for multiple web page servings per change > > request.... Am I missing something obvious? > > You neglected to deduct the number of servers that are down/rebooting from > the 5k. :) > > http://www.microsoft.com/backstage/column_T2_1.htm this gives a blank screen... maybe they removed it. > > You just can't make this stuff up.... > -- __--_|\ Julian Elischer / \ julian@elischer.org ( OZ ) World tour 2000-2001 ---> X_.---._/ v To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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