>> With respect to Avro/Hadoop, I suspect requests from clients to be time >> clustered. > > That was my thought as well. The thing that gets me is that in the case > of Hadoop (and the related subprojects) the clients utilizing this > particular HTTP connection are probably going to be pretty small (maybe > low thousands?). This is even better for keep alive as there's a solid > chance you're going to have a high reuse rate. Of course, I'm assuming > we're talking about things like name node to data node, hbase client to > region servers, and those types of communications. Even if you just used > Jetty (or any other thin HTTP 1.1 container that supports KA), one > should easily be able to see good performance. >
Absolutely. Additionally, I realized one more thing -- when a client knows they aren't likely to send another request soon, they can send a request with Connection: close. Well behaved clients can help maximize the benefit. > Regards. > -- > Eric Sammer > e...@lifless.net > http://esammer.blogspot.com >
