Resource estimation
Jay A. Carlson (nop@theory.cs.mankato.msus.edu)
Wed, 16 Jun 1993 03:44:23 -0500
> 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.
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