Report in from douban.com: 5 million page requests/day on our dedicated Quixote server, and we just hit the CPU ceiling (30 process) . We just added one additional server, and will upgrade to quad-core Opteron. We use a linux/mysql/memcached/quixote/scgi/lighttpd stack. Since we are a SNS with an extensive recommendation engine, most of the requested pages contain multiple types of content classes, and some needs heavy personalization (sort, set union, etc)。 Quixote is the most worry-free layer of the stack. Thank you again to the Quixote team. - Bo