Re: oh the irony

From: Joe Touch (touch@ISI.EDU)
Date: Tue Aug 03 1999 - 00:14:57 MDT


"Josh Cohen (Exchange)" wrote:
>
> On a related note, I think one of the major issues, which hasn't
> been mentioned here yet, is the server utilization. From the
> web site's perspective, which handles hundreds of requests
> per second, holding a persistent connection open for even a mere
> second is very expensive.

A multithreaded implementation should have no problem with
quite a few open connections.

> This is especially painful for servers
> that maintain a more or less fixed set of processes or maximum
> concurrent connections such as Apache.

Yes. Slow servers are slow. What are you tuning?

Joe



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