Bakul Shah wrote:
>
> >From the top level page I read hotmail handles 550,000 change
> requests a day. Later in the article they say they have a
> 5000 server farm. That translates to 110 change requests a
> day on average per server. If the peak rate is 10 times the
> average, that is still only about 1100 requests/server/day or
> about 78 seconds on average. This rate seems quite low even
> when you account for multiple web page servings per change
> request.... Am I missing something obvious?
You neglected to deduct the number of servers that are down/rebooting from
the 5k. :)
http://www.microsoft.com/backstage/column_T2_1.htm
You just can't make this stuff up....
Doug
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