Doug Barton wrote:
>
> Bakul Shah wrote:
> >
> > >From the top level page I read hotmail handles 550,000 change
> > requests a day. Later in the article they say they have a
> > 5000 server farm. That translates to 110 change requests a
> > day on average per server. If the peak rate is 10 times the
> > average, that is still only about 1100 requests/server/day or
> > about 78 seconds on average. This rate seems quite low even
> > when you account for multiple web page servings per change
> > request.... Am I missing something obvious?
>
> You neglected to deduct the number of servers that are down/rebooting from
> the 5k. :)
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/backstage/column_T2_1.htm
this gives a blank screen... maybe they removed it.
>
> You just can't make this stuff up....
>
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