On 6/6/10 8:03 AM, "Graham Leggett" <minf...@sharp.fm> wrote:

> With multi-core architectures, we're finding that humble worker on our
> commodity hardware is as fast or faster than our load balancers.

+1
 
We soon found that the web servers spends more time doing context switches
than actual work. (Or so it seems, probably a slight exaggeration).  Imagine
httpd with 100k threads!!! Now imagine the same amount of "work" being done
in 2 threads.  Not terribly hard to do in an asynchronous framework.


-- 
Brian Akins

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