If you had a gold dollar that could be divided into 100 gold pennies. In a scale of 1 - 100 what would you layout Dolphin as the largest use of resource(s) on a server and why? I am looking for a top down approach or if there is any documentation for this anywhere can you point me to it. May we all understand that there are quite a few variables that must affect this calculation.
I.E.
1) Processing a video
2) Simultaneous Sql Searches
What I would love to see is some kind of structure to follow that if a site was hit with tremendous traffic and began to fail that some processes in a systematic approach could be halted and or stopped to allow it to function.