[42199] in Cypherpunks
Re: Does your software?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Mittelhauser)
Tue Oct 24 19:26:58 1995
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Jon Mittelhauser <jonm@netscape.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 16:00:36 +0000
Reply-To: jonm@netscape.com
Dr. Frederick B. Cohen wrote:
> Yet it services more than one request per minute, 24 hours, 7 days, and
> has done so without denial of services, corruption, or leakage since its
> first implementation. It's so small it can be verified, it's faster
> than the retail brand, and it doesn't have all the holes we keep finding
> in tho other servers. Different strokes for different folks.
I really tried to resist but....
1 request a minute!!!! That's a whopping 1440 a day! Try 20+ a second or
over a million a day which is the current rough load which most of our
servers on our site handle...(our peak day last week was 17 million hits).
I don't disagree that there is value in producing a trivial server which
can be guaranteed to have zero bugs (since it is so small). It, however,
should be treated as an intellectual excercise. Comparing it to a production-level
retail server is simply meaningless..they have different goals (as your last
post emphasized)...
-Jon
