Re:The Sad Reality of Post-Mature Optimization
by patio11 on Sunday August 14, 2011 @01:02PM
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Update: A torrent of readers and my meager server's CPU usage sits at a constant <1%. Hardly miraculous — trivial even — but compare it to the countless sites that fall over when they receive any attention at all. When I built this trivial blog engine, largely for a laugh, efficiency was a principal consideration right at the outset, and was an architectural concern with every decision.
Web servers typically don't fall over because PHP or Rails can't hand a whole ten requests a second on a CPU that can do a billion operations a second. They fall over because of a performance optimization written into the default Apache configuration in1996 to increase throughput by ~2%
Web servers typically don't fall over because PHP or Rails can't hand a whole ten requests a second on a CPU that can do a billion operations a second. They fall over because of a performance optimization written into the default Apache configuration in1996 to increase throughput by ~2%
Death to KeepAlive.