Does it really suck so badly? I mean, 8000 requests per minute on a quad-core systems is 33 request/second per core, or 100 million CPU cycles per request on a

Does it really suck so badly? I mean, 8000 requests per minute on a quad-core systems is 33 request/second per core, or 100 million CPU cycles per request on a 3.3GHz CPU. That seems enough for the web server to take a vacation in the middle of responding.