RE: FLASH: ANN: Generator 2, new versions

[Diane Rogers]

Website fix is underway, thanks for the catch, and sorry for the confusion.


At 01:19 AM 5/23/00 +0100, you wrote:

>John,

>

>Thanks for the explanation, perhaps you could suggest that the Generator

>team revise the text that is currently online as it will clearly induce in

>error.

>I know the dust might still be settling on other pages but after all the

>detail that is given in the performance test another area that could be more

>informative is the pricing structure for the 'GrownUp' Edition of Generator.

>Just saying it start's at xxxUSD and giving an email address isn't much

>info.

>Anyway if the developer edition doesn't watermark the produced files then it

>is a good deal.

>For those that might be considering if it's worth the price some simple math

>:

>The available docs on this product say that it only generates one graphic at

>a time, OK.

> >From the FigLeaf study we can obtain an overestimate of 2 seconds to produce

>a complex database dependent graphic on a 1 processor 128Mb machine. This

>boils down to the fact that under these conditions the developer edition can

>produce in the range of 1800 graphics per hour. So we need to know how many

>users this solution can accommodate without degrading too much. If every

>request to the server triggers a Generator request (worst case scenario) and

>each user views each page for 30 seconds on average, then we have 120 page

>requests per user/hour.

>Gathering all this info tells us that a site with an expected value of 20

>users per hour should, with 95% confidence level, start showing some signs

>of degradation.

>Relaxing the conditions a bit and adapting to real world conditions I think

>we can have this edition serving content for a group of medium sized sites

>with an expected average 'Generator' page request of around 2400 per hour.

>For those that still remember poison distributions  you'll see that this

>value is quite good, just check the probability for 4800 page requests per

>hour, a value that would choke the server.

>

>Conclusion :

>Not to bad for the price, not bad at all.

>

>.redstar.

>

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