What's the “average” requests per second for a production web application?

Question

I have no frame of reference in terms of what\'s considered \"fast\"; I\'d always wondered this but have never found a straight answer...

Answer 1

When I go to the control panel of my webhost, open up phpMyAdmin, and click on "Show MySQL runtime information", I get:

This MySQL server has been running for 53 days, 15 hours, 28 minutes and 53 seconds. It started up on Oct 24, 2008 at 04:03 AM.

Query statistics: Since its startup, 3,444,378,344 queries have been sent to the server.

Total 3,444 M
per hour 2.68 M
per minute 44.59 k
per second 743.13

That's an average of 743 mySQL queries every single second for the past 53 days!

I don't know about you, but to me that's fast! Very fast!!