> What is available in Squeak for distributed network services?
STOMP simply has a system where several computers can send requests to a
server simultaneously. It looks alot like a DOS attack, but it let's us
test how fast Comanche responds without worrying about the network.
> I don't find Comanche being at 30% of Apache to be all that bad.
> Especially considering it's still beta and there is plenty of room for
> improvement on networking primitives. The question is what is available
> for distibuting my website across multiple machines? At some point, one
> machine will max out.
We just did a small test with Comanche Swiki.
A pretty average page request took 62ms. Taking out the networking of the
computer leaves 49 ms for Comanche and Swiki time. Of that, 20 ms was
Comanche. For flat file serving of an image, it took 22 ms.
So, I would think that the difference between dynamic and static serving
is about 50%. That doesn't seem to be very promising for scaling. Also,
remember that you'd have to write your own code for a distributed system.
There are ways to transmit squeak object's fairly quickly, so that should
help. Also, I heard some people are working on streaming primitives that
would help. Either way, it's a good amount of work.
> I don't use NT, so that doesn't help me. Where is Advantive's site?
swiki.net or netunify.com
Peace and Luck!
Je77
