On Sat, 2002-05-25 at 14:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> existing compute-bound applications are "not a good fit"-
> though web-hosting and file serving are two good fits since
> they're bursty and don't sit and spin (unless the web host is
> facing the "slashdot effect").
With mostly static content and a decent webserver (eg thttpd) you can
serve a full slashdotting on 486 class processor. The compute bound
parts of web services come mostly from
1. Database queries that are not cached
2. Using SQL when you could field most queries off a db hash front
end instead
3. Poor web server designs
4. Java servlets
For a very long time www.linux.org.uk ran on an 8Mb MacII running
Linux/m68k. It handled the load just fine.
