[Techtalk] Server Deployment

[Jenn Vesperman]

On Sat, 2002-06-01 at 15:09, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
>
> I should also note that at the volume of transactions we are currently
> doing, the half-duplex (aargh!) network we are feeding the data to on
> the client's side is starting to get close to 40% saturated (which is
> extremely bad for half-duplex, since the collision count starts to
> become significant). So, while it may seem obvious, you may not need to
> be as fast as you think if the upstream side can't handle the volume.

Have you considered shoving a Squid web accelerator/proxy on the
client-side end of that network? Or is it their LAN itself that's being
saturated?



Jenn V.
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