[87719] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: net-op: traffic loads as the result of patching
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gadi Evron)
Thu Jan 5 17:22:49 2006
Date: Fri, 06 Jan 2006 00:21:22 +0200
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: Elijah Savage <esavage@digitalrage.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <43BD9B5C.1060200@digitalrage.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Elijah Savage wrote:
>
> Sean Donelan wrote:
>
>>
>> So, maybe an operational question.
>>
>> What are people seeing as far as network traffic loads due to WMF
>> patching
>> activity, e.g. auto-update and manual downloads? Microsoft has used
>> several CDNs in addition to its own servers to distribute the load
>> in the past.
>
> WSUS servers are being pounded right now. Usually 5 to 7% CPU now 72%
On usual Black Tuesdays though, there is quite a rush as well. Thing is
this patch is alone while then there are a few. I believe it might even
itself out in statistics.
Gadi.
