From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Apr 14 19:50: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE19B37B443; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:50:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@DougBarton.net) Received: from DougBarton.net (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA34200; Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:50:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@DougBarton.net) Message-ID: <3AD90C59.53E7DB55@DougBarton.net> Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:50:01 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bakul Shah Cc: Robert Watson , r.hyunseog@ieee.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Interesting article. References: <200104101733.NAA09610@renown.cnchost.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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