Maoni’s WebLog

An absolute cricial thing to developing a server application is throttling. Unfortunately this is not known to everyone who develops server apps. Especially when developing managed server apps, some people think that GC should just take care of that aspect not realizing that GC manages memory, not requests. If your machine has 2GB of memory and each request takes 1MB of memory, it can’t handle more than 2048 requests concurrently. If you keep accepting requests as fast as they come in without any kind of throttling you will run out of memory when the number of requests exceeds what your machine can handle.