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[minestrone]

Ach, I like like winding you up alexi.

[AtW]

I will and I can because I have something shiny to look at with lots of shiny things. I own a house, you do not.

You are a Russian financial immigrant who split a job when you got a passport and lived off the tax payer for years.

I have said before you have cost this country more than you can give.

Sue me.

I'll dedicate a paragraph to you in my future book, will make sure I clear it with my lawyer first though.

[AtW]

I was just pointing out that it's doable.

I said front end can run in parallel, obviously backend database (if it is used by front end) should be as scalable.

[minestrone]

Honestly ATW if you ever want to sue me over my accusation that you are a dole scrounger I am very happy to go through with it, my name and lawyer are always on offer to yourself if I think you are actually capable of it.

[d000hg]

I will and I can because I have something shiny to look at with lots of shiny things. I own a house, you do not.

A shiny house? Weirdo.

Sue me.

Hi Sue. I always figured you were a man.

[minestrone]

I need to get back and do monthly invoices. Go look at something shiny ministrone.

I will and I can because I have something shiny to look at with lots of shiny things. I own a house, you do not.

You are a Russian financial immigrant who split a job when you got a passport and lived off the tax payer for years.

I have said before you have cost this country more than you can give.

Sue me.

[doodab]

I just had a chat with our network admin and you right, there can be more than 64k internal sockets provided there is enough memory to handle it, however I still maintain 1 mln calls per 1 sec would have more overheads than handling one call sending 140 MB.

Yes I agree. But it was you who said that

Front end stuff is very easy to run in parallel very cheaply

I was just pointing out that it's doable.

[AtW]

It just seemed like he meant a database table to me. Maybe he didn't. We should ask him.

Well, let's assume he meant database, in this case I'd keep such data structures in memory and it won't be an issue to query them - there won't be a big delay reading 140 MB.

[AtW]

Pick out where I said MBs Alexi? 140 chars was my only data description you will find. Completely unable to understand basic quantities you are.

Well, char for me in C# is 2 bytes, and in other times including database is 1 byte, if I wanted 2 bytes in DB then I'd expect some other term wchar (?).

Anyhow, I need to get back and do monthly invoices. Go look at something shiny ministrone.

[doodab]

1 table with one text field of 140 chars if that gets accessed 1 million times in 1 second

It does not say database here, text field can be in memcache or on disk.

It just seemed like he meant a database table to me. Maybe he didn't. We should ask him.

If you keep 140 MB file in a database then you are an idiot.

That depends. A lot of document management systems do just that. In my last gig I had to move ~15TB of files (10s of millions, some quite large) out of a database to a file system and provide multiple access paths to them. We gained a lot in ease of access but lost out in terms of being able to search the metadata, as FS metadata isn't really optimised for that.

[minestrone]

It does not say database here, text field can be in memcache or on disk.

If you keep 140 MB file in a database then you are an idiot.

Pick out where I said MBs Alexi?

140 chars was my only data description you will find.

Completely unable to understand basic quantities you are.

[AtW]

You only need one on the server side. Do you mean file descriptors?

I just had a chat with our network admin and you right, there can be more than 64k internal sockets provided there is enough memory to handle it, however I still maintain 1 mln calls per 1 sec would have more overheads than handling one call sending 140 MB.

[d000hg]

I think you opened up a SKA thread, told us twitter worked only half the time, reduced to 10% when pressed, argued 10% was a half.

You can't trust AtW just because he sometimes sounds like he knows about technical issues. After all, as the saying goes, even a stopped clock is right half the time.

[doodab]

I think you'll run out of TCP/IP sockets.

You only need one on the server side. Do you mean file descriptors?

[minestrone]

Not if you get requests from 1/4 million unique IPs over TCP/IP.

Is it just me who thinks minestrone is an idiot?

I think you opened up a SKA thread, told us twitter worked only half the time, reduced to 10% when pressed, argued 10% was a half.