Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:50:01 -0700 From: Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net> To: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, r.hyunseog@ieee.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Interesting article. Message-ID: <3AD90C59.53E7DB55@DougBarton.net> References: <200104101733.NAA09610@renown.cnchost.com>
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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 You just can't make this stuff up.... Doug -- Perhaps the greatest damage the American system of education has done to its children is to teach them that their opinions are relevant simply because they are their opinions. Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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