Re: Overwhelming a Web Application Server

["Walden H. Leverich" <WaldenL@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> For most database maintenance applications on my server, Fiddler
reports request 
> response times in the 15-150 ms range, typically - on the local
network.  

Great response times! To be clear, I was referring to single _database_
requests, not total page requests. 

> A response to a login request may trigger something like 86
asynchronous requests 

Are you sure those aren't just requests for other elements on the page
(js, css, img, etc).

> They evidently use persistent sockets.

Why is that evident. I would think they wouldn't do that as a general
rule. The places I've seen the "big boys" using persistent connections
are finance.[google][yahoo].com (stock quotes) and facebook's chat
window. Their persistent connections also talk to highly customized
servers on the back end. They're dealing w/such huge volumes they don't
normally want to leave the socket open long.

-Walden