"Richard J. Sexton" wrote:
>
> >Database overload doesn't imply anything at all about descernible "hard
> >limits". Here's a scenario:
> >
> >If all the database accesses complete on average in less than the
> >arrival time of requests, then everything is cool. However, knowing
> >those averages is very difficult: 1) the database accesses vary with the
> >different kinds of incoming requests; 2) the database accesses interact
> >with each other -- have to lock access to certain items, but not to
> >others (a difficult to analyze interaction); 3) the number of
> >simultaneously active processes varies considerably, because you have
> >multiple instantiations of the web server, cgi scripts, subsidiary
> >processes called by the scripts, and so on, and this impacts the overall
> >load average on the system.
>
> Um, dont you tweak the number of concurrent webserver child processes
> to it can't exceed it's capacity?
>
> Course... if we had this discussion before, not after it went live
> it might have made a difference.
what you want ICANN to go open source???????????????????
what drugs are they giving you in Bannockburn?????????
>
Dan Steinberg
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