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 -------------------------------------------------------------- Cliff Woolley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Charlottesville, VA