RE: How does ebay do it?

["Stone, Brad V (TC)" <bvstone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

10,000 is pushing it.  The nic will give out first, I'm sure.  which is
where I see the bottleneck using an AS/400 compared to a server farm of NT
boxes.  Multiple Nics is an option, but, expensive. 

 Unless you're running a little box (ie small 720 or lower).  the load
testing I've done on our AS/400 (720, 1 gig memory) showed 500 simultaneous
hits really stressed the system.  But, the requests were also being made
from the same box, so it wasn't quite fair (but requests were interactive
and web server is batch).  Average time was 5 seconds I think?  I dunno for
sure.  I posted the results to Ignite's mailing list.

Brad

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Cozzi [mailto:bobcozzi@attglobal.net]
> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2001 11:34 AM
> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject: RE: How does ebay do it?
> 
> 
> You're thinking is in the right direction.
> 
> I'm currently building an online store, ala eBay style. Right 
> out of the
> gate decided that a keyword search index was going to be 
> necessary. So we
> actually parse the item descriptions, name and allow input of 
> a few other
> keywords, and build the index from that as items are 
> entered/added to the
> system.
> 
> Then SQL or SETLL with READE works great and fast. Remember, 
> with online
> stores, response time for 1 or two or 10 users is not good 
> enough. You have
> to be able to handle 10,000 or more simultaneous users.
> 
> Bob Cozzi
> 
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