Even with 30+ kids uploading, modifying, etc. all at the same time,
the SIMULTANEOUS load is typically very small. To actually respond
to a request takes the server very little time -- maybe a couple
seconds, max, and most often well under a second? Reading a page
places no load on the server -- only the client is busy.
Even with hundreds of students on the same server (e.g., lots of
classes with 100+ students at once, like on
http://swiki.cc.gatech.edu:8080), we don't run up against the
simultaneous load problem very often.
Mark
>So are there any plans to increase the simultaneous load capabilities from
>5? I'm thinking K-12 use of a single Swiki during one class period. This
>will be 30+ kids uploading, modifying, reading, all at the same
>time. Perhaps multiple classes concurrently...
>
>Amity
>
>On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Jochen F. Rick wrote:
>
> > > To make it even harder, I've recommended that Swikis should have a
> > > built-in load limit, just in case: specifically, they can refuse to
> > > accept more than n simultaneous connections.
> >
> > Actually, this has been in ComSwiki for some months now. It is not turned
> > on in the downloads, but if you find you are having reliability problems,
> > this is easy to deal with.
> >
> > Peace and Luck!
> >
> > Je77
> >
>
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> Amity Heckemeyer
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