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- > In fact, the load on an HTTP server machine is very slight,
- > because the process only runs as long as it takes to return
- > the document. The info.cern.ch server which has the Subject
- > Catalogue gets probably a relatively high usage, about
- > 10k requests a day, or (thinks...) one every 9 seconds.
- > the CPU load is negligible. In fact of course the peak rate
- > is higher, but still its not really a factor.
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- Also note that httpd appears to be somewhat memory-hungry. On my
- DECstation 5000, running Ultrix, it used 8M to serve ONE PAGE. In a
- system serving more pages I can see that this kind of caching would be
- useful, but in small systems you may wanna look at an alternative
- server.
-
- Jay Carlson
- nop@theory.cs.mankato.msus.edu
-
- Flat text is just *never* what you want. ---stephen p spackman
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