Device polling - worthwhile?

2006-09-23 Thread Paul Schmehl
I've been reading about device polling. I'm wondering if it's worth doing on a busy website (4,000,000+ hits/month, 45GB+ bandwidth use). I understand what polling is and how it queues traffic as opposed to the old-fashioned interrupt method, but do you really gain performance-wise? Are

Re: Device polling - worthwhile?

2006-09-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
Paul Schmehl wrote: I've been reading about device polling. I'm wondering if it's worth doing on a busy website (4,000,000+ hits/month, 45GB+ bandwidth use). I understand what polling is and how it queues traffic as opposed to the old-fashioned interrupt method, but do you really gain