On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 09:15:49PM -0500, Lamar Owen wrote: > There is a good, if inconspicuous, mention of AOLserver in the Feb LJ. On > page 46, in the feature on the Magnatune record label, the statement is made: > "Apache 2 running PHP and OpenSSL serves all the HTML pages. When Magnatune > was Slashdotted, I found that Apache could not keep up with the load for
> images. All HTTP image requests now are off-loaded to AOLserver, which had > the lowest latency to serve images at high speeds." Later: "Mathopd [which > they use to serve the very large streaming audio files] has more latency than > AOLserver, which is why we don't use it to serve small images." Why would anyone care about the "latency" of serving small images? Last I heard a human being viewing images in a browser is not exactly senstive to small latencies the way a parellel MPI program might be, after all. Or are they talking about absurdly large latency differences between Mathopd and AOLserver, like several seconds or more? -- Andrew Piskorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.piskorski.com/ -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> with the body of "SIGNOFF AOLSERVER" in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
