Even for a web site used exclusively by people, "fail fast" when overloaded can be good. You would rather give an error (one hopes a "gee, so sorry, we having some trouble right now" page) to some users rather than be extremely slow for many users.
What do I do when I get a slow web page? I hit reload (and I am not alone). This further overloads the system and doesn't even cancel the earlier requests (from the servers point of view). A "fail fast" response didn't cost the server very much. With luck, the load will be lower a few seconds later when the user hits reload. On Sun, Nov 17, 2013, at 12:25 AM, Cedric Greevey wrote: On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 9:35 PM, James Reeves <[1]ja...@booleanknot.com> wrote: On 17 November 2013 01:52, Cedric Greevey <[2]cgree...@gmail.com> wrote: The distribution will be narrow and peak at around 1 second, though, which may not be what you want. Of course, the OP has since indicated that he meant non-web uses of HTTP rather than serving web sites... Web services are generally considered to be part of the web, hence the term "web service" :) Well, which is it? Either it's the web, and the user will probably promptly hit reload if faced with a 503 error at what should be a working URL, or else it's not the web, and lies outside the scope of my original remark. References 1. mailto:ja...@booleanknot.com 2. mailto:cgree...@gmail.com -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
