Re: Windows XP RC2

[Jason Legate <jlegate () alienchick com>]

Your analysis only works if the requests are so evenly spaced throughout the
day, that you don't end up with a bell curve (which is what you would end up
with, actually).

Imagine, that the default time to query for ntp would be 2AM localtime:

For 2:00 Eastern (UTC-5)
The poor server setup to field the requests would have to handle hundreds of
thousands of requests all within a few minutes of each other:

500,000 * 100-byte request / (60 seconds / min * 5 min) = 166666bytes/sec =
1302kbps = 1.3Mbps.... This is of course assuming that the machine can handle
all those requests:  100,000 / minute or 1.6k/s, which to my knowledge, would
out-class all public ntp servers at the moment :)

Of course, all numbers in this are just pulled out of the air :)

-j

On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:13:47PM +0100, Dom De Vitto wrote:
> Hmmm,
> 10,000,000 machines requesting one a day * 100-byte request
> / 86400 seconds in a day = 11574 bytes/sec = 93kbits/second
> I'm sure connexion could cope :)
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