[FX.php List] How much traffic can it take?

[Gjermund Gusland Thorsen]

The clue is; if you configure FMSA 8.0v4r2 correctly you should be
able to go fast.

FMS 9 is a little bit slower, but has more features...

ggt

2008/2/4, Tim 'Webko' Booth <tim at nicheit.com.au>:
>
> On 05/02/2008, at 8:25 AM, Michael Layne wrote:
>
> > I know I'm not offering a dissertation on WHY, but if it's something
> > that is expecting a great deal of traffic and hits/bandwidth usage,
> > I'd strongly consider MySQL.  It can be infinitely faster.
>
> I'd consider "infinitely" to be a pretty big call...
>
> As a point of comparison, I built a similar type of thing in CDML some
> years ago which also showed in the logs as having up to 50 users
> towards the closing time of auctions.
>
> Don't get me wrong, there was some slowdown at times [1] but the
> system worked - and that was running on FMS5.5 on a G4, with
> distribution through a single G4 running Apache and 3 RAIC machines
> that were old PII and PIII boxes - IOW, about as far from an ideal
> setup as you can get.
>
> The number of users is not the issue - it's the number of database
> calls - if each page is making 5 queries, and they're all hitting
> Refresh every 2 seconds... well...
>
> Cheers
>
> Webko
> [1] We changed the close time to a time when the other systems running
> on the same boxes were not busy, which helped a lot
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