Or you could use lift and Jetty and Comet so that your client's not polling, but has a persistent connection open to the server.
See: http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JETTY/Continuations On 1/28/08, Itai Zukerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > You can find my first go at a PHP/Erlang extension at: > > http://www.math-hat.com/~zukerman/projects/php-erlang/ > > I'd love it if some Erlang or PHP hackers could take a look and let me > know what they think. > > I wrote a simple chat app to test it (Erlang code included in the tar > file), created one PHP script for reading messages and one for > writing, and tested 100 bots against it doing polling reads every 9/10 > requests and writes 1/10. On my 2 year old 2.6GHz Pentium 4 machine, > with Apache2 and PHP5, I managed about 350 requests/s. If the web app > were polling for messages every 5s, and messages were sent every > minute or so on average, then my system could handle about 1750 > simultaneous users. This is Not That Great. My desktop at work (a 4 > CPU something-or-other) had about 10x the performance, so it could > maybe handle 17k users, which is Better. > > > > -- lift, the secure, simple, powerful web framework http://liftweb.net Collaborative Task Management http://much4.us --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to "Bay Area Functional Programmers" To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bayfp?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
