How to make 150k active clients happy?

[Sam Hayes Merritt, III]

> I would make sure that the HTTP requests are uncoupled from the DHCP 
> server's operation.  Instead of launching wget directly, do something 
> else as cheaply as possible (eg. create a small file with the details of 
> the transaction, rename when finished) and have another process watch 
> for those and have it push them off with wget.

Depending on the reason for the http requests, gluff might fit in here. It 
records the updates into a sqlite database and then processes the 
information from there.


sam