Re: 1 Million users.. I can't Scale!!
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Re: 1 Million users.. I can't Scale!!

From: phil <phillip.watts@anvilcom.com>
Date: Thu Sep 29 2005 - 21:44:33 CEST

> Quite true and this lack of clarity was a mistake on my part. Requests
> from users do not really become a significant part of this equation
> because, as described above, once a user subscribes the onus is upon us
> to generate messages throughout a given period determined by the number
> of updates a user has subscribed to receive.
>

So you are trying to SEND a million times several packets every
5 minutes?
No way Python is the bottleneck in that volume.
I have a POS app in Python that handles 10,000 packets
per SECOND including a MySQL lookup.
You have a bottleneck, but its not Python.
Received on Sat Oct 15 03:57:33 2005