>>>>> On 20 Dec 2005 16:21:42 -0800, merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) >>>>> said:
> Are you already using a reverse-proxy? Make sure the front lightweight > servers *do* use cache and *don't* use keep-alive to the backend... > your heavy backend will spit the entire response, and go free to service > the next request... your thin front-end will then deliver that response > slowly as needed. I should not have mentioned that the customers are slow as well. Currently our main concern is that our processes have to wait for several data sources, then compute the answer and that our valuable memory is wasted during the wait. -- andreas