well remember, them getting bigger boxes are to handle the number of connections that I am giving to them. Its not a matter of TCP slowing down, its us waiting on their application to finish and their app just handles waits very poorly. -- Jason Baker baker@cyborgworkshop.com www.cyborgworkshop.com On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 15:21:02 -0600 (CST), > Jason <baker@cyborgworkshop.com> wrote in message > <Pine.LNX.4.50.0302271518100.19962-100000@alfred.home.cyborgworkshop.co > m>: > > > They need a bigger box. The whole app on their end is 6 boxes, two > > front end web servers, two application servers and then the database. > > They upgraded the database, which used to be the bottleneck, and we > > then maxed out their web servers. They upgraded their web servers and > > now we max out their app servers. They have more hardware on order, > > but Sun is claiming a month lead time for Sunfires. But I figure in > > the meantime, this should work out pretty well. > > > > ..ok, I'm still deep in the dark: How is a bigger set of iron, that can > spew _more_ connections, gonna help avoid the authorized dos attack??? > > ..the 6-too-small-boxes understands ipcm, and will back off when you > drop packages or connection? > > ..I _think_ a _short!_ timeout on these connections, could work. > >
