I've gone through the logs, and at most I got about 2 search queries per second as a sustained load over several hours. It's calmed down to about 0.5-1 QPS now.
This is ignoring other page loads. Not bad, if I do say so myself.
Sure I have small page loads and reasonably optimized code, but I also don't use any cookies. I'd imagine having to keep track of upwards of a million session objects would be a struggle for almost any web server.
I've gone through the logs, and at most I got about 2 search queries per second as a sustained load over several hours. It's calmed down to about 0.5-1 QPS now.
This is ignoring other page loads. Not bad, if I do say so myself.