--- Bas Scheffers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Fred Cox said:
> > 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.
> I don't see much of a problem with that, depending
> on how big the files
> are, of course and how efficient your authetication
> is. But if you plan
> 100 requests on a 10Mbit interface, the files can't
> be bigger than 10K
> each, correct?

That's correct.

> AOLserver will serve about that
> amount of static files of
> that size on that kind of machine (just tried) so
> there you are good.
>
> If you are autheticating those static file dowloads
> as well, that's of
> course best left in a trace in C and should not make
> anything slower if
> you have all auth data in memory.
>

Is there any good explanation about the usage of
traces vs. filters vs. who knows what other hooks, and
what they're typically used for?  So far, all I've
read says everything's used for logging.

> Uploads will be slower, if you do end up with 5 per
> second, I'd imagine
> you wouldn't hit the top end of you hoped for number
> of hits, but it'd be
> close, even using Tcl.
>
> To be honest, if this is a dynamic web app with
> people surfing the site,
> Tcl would be the way to go. But it sounds like this
> is for some automatic
> upload process that doesn't need a fancy interface,
> in which case you
> might as well go with C to get the most out of it
> you can.
>

Thanks for the validation,

Fred

> Cheers,
> Bas.
>
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