On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> or the POS systems at the end of the day. Even the newspaper site I used
> to work for had regular peaks which where about 150-250x higher during
> predicatable 15-30 minute time slots; than the average - and the median
> was well below that.

I said _instantaneously_.  But fine....

> So no - you want to design for the capability to handle the worst cases -
> whilst ensuring it does a good job of the avergage case :-)

Of course.

--Cliff

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   Cliff Woolley
   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   Charlottesville, VA


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