[19470] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Flash crowds and network management
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Mon Sep 14 14:41:03 1998
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 1998 13:33:44 -0500
From: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>
To: nanog@merit.edu
bicknell@dimension.NET (Leo Bicknell) writes:
> That's 5600 hits a second, for those who don't want to
>fire up bc. Not bad.
Some government servers were seeing over 10,000 hits per second
at the peak, about double CNN's load.
So does anyone have any practical/technical advise on how the
government sites could have done better. Be carefull about
following IBM's webhosting manager J.D. Zeeman's example of
foot-in-mouth problem when he said "I doubt they are scalable
to the extent of the ones we have." LOC's servers were made
by IBM.
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Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
Affiliation given for identification not representation
