<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On Apr 19, 2007, at 17:09 , <A href="mailto:andrew@flypublishing.com">andrew@flypublishing.com</A> wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Monaco" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Monaco">thanks.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>At what point would you say it does get unpractical?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>5000</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Monaco" size="2" style="font: 10.0px Monaco">requests per second?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>50,000 per second?</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>You just have to measure for your environment. I was doing 30,000 sets per second with my java client last night with the client and server both running on my laptop.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>Assuming you're not running stuff like firefox, and eclipse and google desktop and stuff on your servers, you may be able to squeeze a bit more out of them.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>I like to keep running metrics on all that sort of stuff in my app. memcached has a nice way to watch rates of things occurring, and I usually litter my applications with tools that track rates and timing of things.</DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>-- </DIV><DIV>Dustin Sallings</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>