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Scaling Server Performance

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the caching-for-fun-and-profit dept.

An anonymous reader writes "When Ace's Hardware's article Hitchhiker's Guide to the Mainframe was posted on Slashdot, they got 590,000 hits and over 250,000 page requests during one day. This kind of traffic caused only a 21% average CPU load to their Java-based web server, which is powered by a single 550MHz UltraSparc-II CPU. In their newest article, Scaling Server Performance, Ace's Hardware explains how this was possible."

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  1. So the article on preventing the /. effect ... by burgburgburg · · Score: 5, Funny
    will be tested to see if it's meaningful. I like that. That is definitely putting your money where your mouth is.

    Of course, it is incumbent upon all of us to rush out and try to the link to the article. And some of us to actually read it as opposed to just reading the title.

  2. <blows horn> by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    This kind of traffic caused only a 21% average CPU load to their Java-based web server, which is powered by a single 550MHz UltraSparc-II CPU. In their newest article, Scaling Server Performance, Ace's Hardware explains how this was possible.
    Battlestations!

    SLASHDOT THEM AGAIN!!!
  3. yes. by krog · · Score: 5, Funny

    seeing as it took Slashdot 35 seconds to serve me up this comments.pl?op-Reply page, yes, i think we are supposed to be impressed.

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