Re: Overwhelming a Web Application Server

[Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen <ravn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Nathan Andelin skrev:
> It makes me wonder how long before social consciousness is aroused to the point where we start relying more on intelligent software, and less on commodity hardware, to run servers at 60-90% and still provide good response to users?
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Well, CPU power on PC's is cheap plus until recently CPU's got faster if 
you just waited a bit (now they just get more cores).   Additionally the 
rest of the machines usually could not keep up to the cpu, so the usage 
tended to be less important, as long as it had power enough to be able 
to handle peaks.

I think the Cloud computing moniker is going to change that.   The 
computers in a company cloud might naturally be the servers, but all the 
personal computers may as well provide unused CPU power to the cloud and 
that will change peoples perception of what is acceptable.

... I think :)