Submitted by Zack (not verified) on Tue, 12/30/2008 - 13:36.
In reality, pages generated for Wikipedia users by Drupal, Wikimedia, or whichever application they use are generally served through an extensive cacheing system (Squid etc.). So it's not as if Drupal itself is literally serving up all those reqs per second...
In reality, pages generated for Wikipedia users by Drupal, Wikimedia, or whichever application they use are generally served through an extensive cacheing system (Squid etc.). So it's not as if Drupal itself is literally serving up all those reqs per second...