Re: Web application?

On Sáb 14 Jul 2001 08:42, Yves Gauvreau wrote: > Sorry for the delay. > > The project I'm working on is private by nature in the sence that only > my clients will have access to the application. I don't expect to have > more then a few dozen but each of them may have up to say 50 users. Say > I have 50 clients each with 50 users. This means that I could have as > much as 2500 concurrent users with an extremely low probability I'll > admit to that. The same goes for only 1 users at a time but I think this > situation is much more likely then all users at the same time. I don't > know the exact distribution but I suspect it's somekind of gamma > distribution with the peak (or mode) in the relatively low numbers. Also > the approach I'm taking will favor working with a low number of records > at a time, of course this can go as high as 10000 records in some case > but here again the mode of the distribution should be in the low > numbers. Lastly I think that about 50% of the request to the web server > will require database access. 2500 isn't a hudge amount of users, but it is a big number. Check articles related to why PHPbuilder.org and SourceForge.net switched from MySQL to PostgreSQL. MySQL's table locking is what they blame. saludos... ;-) -- Cualquiera administra un NT. Ese es el problema, que cualquiera administre. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Marques | mmarques@unl.edu.ar Programador, Administrador | Centro de Telematica Universidad Nacional del Litoral -----------------------------------------------------------------