I think it would have fared much better if I had waited until I got my ISA Ethernet card in the mail. But serving this over serial at 38400 baud and watching it try to keep up was tempting. I’ll have to see how well it fares with real networking hardware. At that point I might post it again, although I will have to add enough content to it to justify a repost.
Are you able to measure the latency of processing one request when there is no load?
Just back of the envelope, if it takes 200,000 instructions to handle a request and we assume 6 cycles per instruction, then that’s about 25 requests per second.
HN is roughly 50K requests over 6 hours, so that’s roughly 2 requests per second on average. I would imagine it peaks to about 25. So in theory you should be able to handle the traffic.
