At 2:05 pm PDT this afternoon, we hit 200 users at the same time. Because of a minor auto-update scheduled at that time, this caused a database "brownout". I took Apache and Mysql down and restarted them so some of you likely experienced a few mysterious messages while trying to load pages.
I'm probably going to have to put more memory in the server. This will likely cost between $150 and $400. A nice thing at CalPOP is that this will be a one-time fee not a continuing one.
This has nothing to do with the ads, btw, since they aren't served from the BC server.
- Erin
Comments
I noticed
I was briefly unable to get on, probably about that time. The highest numbers I saw were 22 users and 158 guests, I wondered if that was any kind of a record. I also wondered if somebody was doing a DOS attack on BC, or if those were all legit.
KJT
"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose"
Janis Joplin
“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.” - Turkish Proverb
Numbers
The numbers appear to be legit, we've been running close to 170-190 at peak between 5 and 6 Eastern time for several weeks. Off peak hours are a bit down due to the loss of a significant fraction of Northern Europe due to the Cogent/Telea squabble but that effects things early in the day, mostly.
I've reduced the number of stories on the front page from 50 to 40 which won't help that much but might make a difference right in the middle of a crunch.
- Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Numbers, Telia-Cogent
It seames as if Telia and Cogent have reached an agreement OR that Telia has found another ISP in US , as the contact now runs fine betwen me an BCTS.
Ginni
GinnieG
You've created a monster, Erin
:)
I'm not bad. I'm just drawn that way.
Holy SH** Batman! the hourly visitation here has now reached...
the amount of people visiting a dentists office in the USA every hour! Seriously, I called for a dental appointment and was told it would be six months! This appointment was supposed to be pre-scheduled by them! They forgot, or they upgraded, or fixed something or...anyway, CONGRATULATIONS on your problem Mom! Too many visitors for the site to handle within an hour is really a GOOD thing!
This place is booming!
Huggles Mom
"Be Your-Self, So Easy to Say, So Hard to Live!"