Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 12:53:24 -0700 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> To: Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net> Cc: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.ORG>, r.hyunseog@ieee.org, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Interesting article. Message-ID: <200104151953.PAA11103@illustrious.cnchost.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 14 Apr 2001 19:50:01 PDT." <3AD90C59.53E7DB55@DougBarton.net>
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> > >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.... It was a back-of-an-envelope kind of figuring to make some sense of their numbers -- not that it helped. But even if 50% of the machines are down (we don't have data to prove that) at any given time, the request serving rate still seems low. Also, the above article talks about www.microsoft.com servers not hotmail servers. Thanks for the url, though. Without that I would not have seen this gem: Not having a one-to-one ratio of VIPs to DIPs gives us a mixture of fail-safe and ease of maintenance, To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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