On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Lee Chin wrote: > If you look at the graph at the bottom of the page, they say that their > windows 2000 box can perform over 1 million requests per second with IIS! > > http://www.zdnet.co.uk/pcmag/ne/2000/11/01.html > > Now, I may be naive in my math (and if so I need to know why) but on a > machine that has a 100 Mbps card, if I serve 1 million pages in one second, > that means my page size (web page Im serving) is > > 100000000 (ie. 100 Mb) / 1 Million = ~ 13 bytes > > So if they are saying they did 1 million requests per second on a 100 Mbps > connection, then that means their web pages were 13 bytes long.... > > Are they nuts or am I interpreting the graph wrong? > > > Thanks > Lee > The shorter the page, the faster you can serve it. Did they say anything about useful (or even detectable) pages? Lawson There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. - G. K. Chesterton ---cut here ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
