[pmwiki-users] Slashdotting?

Stirling Westrup sti at pooq.com
Sun May 13 20:08:56 CDT 2007


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Neil Herber (nospam) wrote:
> On 2007-05-12 Stirling Westrup is rumoured to have said:
>> So, what's the best way to prepare PmWiki for a possible slashdotting?
>> Any advice would be appreciated. 
> 
> A page of mine (Alas! not PmWiki) was slashdotted twice on a machine
> that was much more heavily loaded and much less powerful than yours. The
> uplink speed was 1.2 Mbit/s.
> 
> I had no idea it would be slashdotted, so I was not prepared at all. The
> only effect was that the mail server running on the same box slowed down
> a bit. I did get some very impressive (to me) activity graphs from the
> web server (WebStar on Mac OS9).
> 
> The slashdotting peaks lasted about 8 hours.

Thanks for the info. That helps a lot to know.


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