Comments on: Amazon SQS Drops Price By 10,000%? http://laughingmeme.org/2008/02/06/amazon-sqs-drops-pricie-by-10000/ Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:28:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: kellan http://laughingmeme.org/2008/02/06/amazon-sqs-drops-pricie-by-10000/comment-page-1/#comment-235641 kellan Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:04:44 +0000 http://laughingmeme.org/2008/02/06/amazon-sqs-drops-pricie-by-10000/#comment-235641 <p>The buffer in this case means the number of packets you can pull down in a single call.</p> The buffer in this case means the number of packets you can pull down in a single call.

]]> By: Jonathan Boutelle http://laughingmeme.org/2008/02/06/amazon-sqs-drops-pricie-by-10000/comment-page-1/#comment-235603 Jonathan Boutelle Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:28:28 +0000 http://laughingmeme.org/2008/02/06/amazon-sqs-drops-pricie-by-10000/#comment-235603 <p>Err, buffer size of 10 is not good enough.</p> <p>If you're doing video encoding and you get a lot of uploads, you could get up to a backlog of 10 very fast. It'll take a few minutes to start up a new EC2 node, and in the meantime you'll lose data?</p> <p>Unless I'm missing something or misunderstanding what they mean by buffer?</p> Err, buffer size of 10 is not good enough.

If you’re doing video encoding and you get a lot of uploads, you could get up to a backlog of 10 very fast. It’ll take a few minutes to start up a new EC2 node, and in the meantime you’ll lose data?

Unless I’m missing something or misunderstanding what they mean by buffer?

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