From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Path: eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada package registry? Date: Fri, 5 Feb 2016 09:31:29 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: References: <02241ec4-0f95-4f63-9abc-092f167eb59e@googlegroups.com> <56af17b7$0$301$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <56b06eb8$0$301$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <1454483747.2785.135.camel@obry.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: bqgfK7NL3xTHnr0WRaLl4g.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: news.eternal-september.org comp.lang.ada:29353 Date: 2016-02-05T09:31:29+01:00 List-Id: On 04/02/2016 22:03, Randy Brukardt wrote: > Case-in-point: the web server that runs Ada-Auth.org. I was concerned that > the sockets library would be too primitive to handle bursts of traffic, that > Janus/Ada's cooperative multitasking would be a problem, and that the > expensive operations that essentially stop the entire web server would make > performance too choppy to be usable. But in actual fact (and even though the > server machine is way underpowered for what it is doing), the real problem > when the server has been overloaded has been the size of the Internet pipe > to the server. It gets clogged long before the server grinds to a halt. So > most work on server performance would have been just be wasted. Thank to gnoga it is to expect more web servers running on tiny SBCs. The tables might get turned. -- Regards, Dmitry A. Kazakov http://www.dmitry-kazakov.de