The impacts of coding style, efficiency, differences in data,
potential abuse by users, and a host of other factors combine to make
each web service unique. You will therefore need to consider these
things carefully in the light of your unique knowledge of your system
and the pointers and guidelines suggested here. In this chapter we
have tried to show how a defensive and efficient coding style will
make sure that your processes are reasonably small and also unlikely
to grow excessively. Knowing that your processes are well behaved
will give you the confidence to make the best use of the available
RAM, so that you can run the maximum number of processes while
ensuring that the server will be unlikely to swap.
