On Fri, 11 Apr 2003, Richard Grevers wrote:
vibber@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)