"Denver Braughler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Damir Imamovic wrote: > > one process should receive sms messages from cell phones then store them in > > to database > Does it keep (log) the messages or is it just a queue? > > > in peak hours like holidays, new year something as 200.000 > > messages > > 60 messages per second of 160 bytes each isn't going > to choke Cache'.
200.000 messages/second. This is what I wanted to say :-). > > That's not really very much. > As Kevin said, there's enough time to check whether the phone is active or > stolen and whether the recipient has blocked the sender. > > It's not like there are 200,000 distinct users in one hour. > You get a computer with 2 Gb RAM, and let it fly. > 1.000.000 messages per hour doesn't seem unrealistic. there are about 700.000 cell phones in the system and untill now whenever is hollyday or some other event, current system is going to fail everytime. > > If necessary, there is room for three processes here: > One to receive messages, one to validate messages, and one > to transmit messages.
