There's an article from a couple of months ago over at InternetWorld that profiled the EBay server setup and its *two* Enterprise 10000's(Starfires).
Read it and you'll understand just how complex a setup EBay has. One of them performs the searching for the site.. "We had search vendors come in and tell us they had a great product, and we'd point a little of our load at it and it would melt into a puddle of metal on the floor."
It would be interesting if they could find out what the average number of simultanous tasks a human can effectivly do is. It would be cool to have a more efficient multi-tasking brain:)
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There's an article from a couple of months ago over at InternetWorld that profiled the EBay server setup and its *two* Enterprise 10000's(Starfires).
Read it and you'll understand just how complex a setup EBay has. One of them performs the searching for the site.. "We had search vendors come in and tell us they had a great product, and we'd point a little of our load at it and it would melt into a puddle of metal on the floor."
It would be interesting if they could find out what the average number of simultanous tasks a human can effectivly do is. It would be cool to have a more efficient multi-tasking brain :)