> YMMV, huh? wassat? >and benchmark it, but cgi's slowness is very fast compared to a > db being fast, na'amean?
yeah i know what you mean. maybe i should ask this question: What sort of hardware would be necessary to have 20-50 concurrent users on Firebird? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kurt at DBC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 10:54 AM Subject: Re: [DUG] CGI performance > Tracey Maule wrote: > > > Hello all > > > > *without starting a discussion on whether CGI apps are a good idea* > > > > Could someone point me in the right direction to find out hardware requirements vs user numbers? > > > > This is probly too off topic for the list, but thought you might > be interested that we did a test comparing a cgi app on P3 1G with the > same app, same images, connecting to same database on a Fancy as 1U > dual P4 2.4G CPU, high memory (not sure how much anymore) ecc, scsi > drives - basically the works. > > Basically the high-spec one was double the speed of the P3, and this > improved app performance by something like 5 or 10%. At a very high > cost. We'd just come off a database change that had given easily 10-100x > speed improvements and saved money. We figured it'd be cheaper to just > put another box in when we needed it. > > YMMV, and benchmark it, but cgi's slowness is very fast compared to a > db being fast, na'amean? Not sure how many simultaneous clients we've > ever had, but we've thrashed it (40 or 50 clients constantly connecting) > in testing and it stood up well enough. > > Cheers, Kurt. > _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
