On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Richard Grevers wrote:
<vibber(a)aludra.usc.edu> gave utterance to the
following:
Bandwidth isn't our problem, though of course
it would be nice to have a
separate media server too. Serving large static files is fairly easy to
do.
But I thought available connections were. And media files will keep a
connection tied up for a while. And the act of taking chunks of a file,
packetizing them and pushing them out to the network still consumes some
CPU, doesn't it?
Sure, some. But as long as we're hosting 750 megabyte backup dumps on the
main server, I don't think a few several-megabyte videos are going to be a
real big drop in the bucket.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)