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		roel_v on Feb 15, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 12,000 Requests per second with Nginx, PHP and Mem... "Is 12,000 requests per second terrible/good/great performance?" Re: this, I don't understand this type of benchmark. A 'request' is completely undefined. Serving 12k 5-byte static pages is quite different from serving 12k frontpages with 25 db queries behind them. Is there an industry-standard interpretation of 'request' that I'm not aware of?

fedd on Feb 15, 2011 [–]

if the guy re-formulates his question like

"is 12000 requests the norm for a popular web site"

would it be better

Mikushi on Feb 15, 2011 | [–]

No.

fedd on Feb 16, 2011 | | [–]

damn.

i'm happy i have no questions! :)

Mikushi on Feb 16, 2011 | | [–]

I realize now that my "No." was misplaced, my "No" was the answer to "is 12,000 req/sec normal for a popular website".

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