Gareth Bult wrote: > Urm, > > When you say doesn't scale .. exactly how many clients do you have and how > quickly do they need to know about updates? > > Let's say for the sake of argument your SQL server can process 2000 moderate > queries per second (not unreasonable) and you want to poll every second with > 10 clients. This really isn't much of an overhead .. ??? > > Bear in mind MySQL has a query cache .. if you go 100 seconds with no > updates, 10 clients will make 1000 SQL requests, but these will be identical > and the server will probably only have to do any real work once ... so ... ?? > > Gareth. > It being a charity race I have to live with whatever hardware I can get my hands on. The server this year was a Celeron 1.8GHz in runlevel 5 with KDE, printing, 2 or 3 apps in use, sometimes a browser for the weather, all in 500 MB.
I have a very nice HP Proliant server sitting right next to me here. Unfortunately, it is bespoken :-) Regards Werner ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
