I couldn't help but notice that Slashdot itself was quite slow earlier today, despite running MySQL on a quad P500 box with .5 or 1 GB RAM, fronted by two dedicated boxes to serve static pages. Brand new hardware all around. Oh well, at least you could get in, that's an improvement.
If we really want to test load, we could always post "Why the AOLserver team chose Tcl rather than Perl" and "Why we don't use Java to generate content" along with Ben's response to the MySQL fanatics. Post 'em all at once and the box will take a few hits...
When I tested my P200 classic with AOLserver and PG a year or so ago, I was able to serve two insert pages and ten select-only pages a second, total of 200 selects and 40 inserts a second (two long transactions in each insert page). I just tell people that and point out my new dual P450 will serve a heck of a lot more, and don't worry about it...
