--- Bas Scheffers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Fred Cox said: > > PIII 800MHz 512MB RAM, 40GB IDE drive. > You call that low end!?
I did say relatively low end. In my early days, I was writing for sub 1 MIPS machines, so almost any modern computer can blow old stuff away, but I still prefer not to waste CPU cycles without a good reason. > I am currently developing on > a Athlon-850 with > Postgres 8 on the same machine. It's an app for > matching up people with > similar interests. (being cryptic here :) Using big > tables and full-text > search and XML/XSLT processing for page design. > (using tdom) Loading the > database with 50.000 fake users, I still push out at > least 10 search > result pages per second! > > The main thing that slows it down is Postgres > sorting. If I have a > reasonable 100-200 matches, a search is 30-50ms, do > an unrealistic query > that returns 2000 results and you have a search that > takes a second, > simply on the sorting of the results. > > What kind of loads are you expecting? > Expecting, or hoping for? Basically, I'd like to able to utilize a 10Mb connection, or roughly 10-100 hits per second, with maybe 5% of those being uploads. > If you are concerned with uploads going to disk > first, you can always use > a RAM disk as temp storage for the uploads until you > get to Tcl. > That's kind of non-optimal, because the RAM disk takes away from program space and OS file buffers. If it's in RAM, and I can easily write it to disk once, I'd like to do that, rather than jump through hoops just to use Tcl because it's supposed to be more efficient to write. I prefer to use the right tool for the job. I don't mind spending a bit more effort in writing the code if I can save on hardware costs. After I get this working and I see what the load on the machine is, I have other tasks that will likely take up the remainder of the spare CPU. Fred > Cheers, > Bas. > > > -- > 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. > ____________________________________________________ Sell on Yahoo! Auctions no fees. Bid on great items. http://auctions.yahoo.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.
