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