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Joshua D. Drake wrote: | |>>Sorry, I meant 30,000 with 300 connections - not 3,000. The 300 |>>connections |>>/ second is realistic, if not underestimated. As is the nature of |>>our site |>>(realtime information about online gaming), there's a huge fan base |>>and as a |>>big upset happens, we'll do 50,000 page views in a span of 3-5 |>>minutes. |>> |>> |> |>First, your posts show no evidences of the CS storm bug. |> |>Second, 300 *new* connections a second is a lot. Each new connection |>requires a significant amount of both database and OS overhead. This |>is why all the other web developers use a connection pool. |> |> |> | I would second this. You need to be running a connection pool and | probably multiple web servers in | front of that. You are talking about a huge amount of connections in | that amount of time. | | Josh Drake | | | |>In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if your lockups are on the OS level, |>even; I don't recall that you cited what OS you're using, but I can |>imagine locking up Linux 2.4 trying to spawn 300 new processes a |>second.
Not to mention that a proxy squid mounted in reverse proxy mode will help a lot.
Regards Gaetano Mendola
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