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SO is I/O bound most of the time. If you've set up your system to handle high workloads of I/O bound traffic, then hitting CPU bounds throws a real wrench in yo
by wheaties 10y ago
SO is I/O bound most of the time. If you've set up your system to handle high workloads of I/O bound traffic, then hitting CPU bounds throws a real wrench in your cogs.
To put this another way, SO is one of the most traffic'd sites on the internet. So a page that's loaded 10k+ times a second is going to push that number much, much, higher. If the CPU can't clear 10k+ req in under the regular time it takes, everything starts to back up.
- mh- 10y ago> To put this another way, SO is one of the most traffic'd sites on the internet. I've seen this said several times here, but never bothered to ask.. by what measure is this true?
- gortok 10y agoAlexa has it at #50: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/stackoverflow.com http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/stackoverflow.com Quantcast has a similar ranking for it: https://www.quantcast.com/stackoverflow.com#trafficCard https://www.quantcast.com/stackoverflow.com#trafficCard
- tgb 10y agoAlexa puts it at rank 50 globally. Honestly this seems suspiciously high and I wonder if their sampling method is biased. Regardless, it's a lot of traffic. http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/stackoverflow.com http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/stackoverflow.com