Slashdot Mirror
Slashdot is Moving. Help Load Test!
We're moving the Slashdot cluster from Exodus East to Exodus West in the next couple days. In good Slashdot Tradition, we've opened up brak.slashdot.org for you to help load test the new cluster. Currently its almost an exact copy of our existing setup (missing a couple of webheads which will be up soon). The actual move will occur late at night (most likely tonight or tomorrow depending on how things go), and will hopefully involve only a few minutes of downtime as we copy the last of the data over the continent. Thanks for your help.
Load test indeed!
Someone please post mirrors!
One future, two choices. Oppose them or let them destroy us.
It'll only take three hams to kill it.
Three hams!!!
You guys got another one called Zorak?
In the free world the media isn't government run; the government is media run.
Here's the text of the website, just in case it gets slashdotted:
... now! ...
Have you Meta Moderated recently?
This page was generated by a Flock of Elite Mummies for American AC in Paris (230456).
Smells like...
NewsPosted by krow on Tuesday October 29, @09:45
from the 40-thousand-years-we-have-been-painting-in-caves dept.
Is this working, fee, fi, foe, fum....
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Apple: Darwin 6.0.2 for x86 Released!?!?!?!
OS X (Apple)Posted by pudge on Monday October 28, @16:24
from the foo-on-you-in-th'-hizouse-yo-yo dept.
Jos Louis writes "Apple has released the x86 version 6.0.2 of Darwin, the FreeBSD-based core of Mac OS X Jaguar. You can download the bootable ISO from here." Commence the raising of the roof
Obliteracy: Words with explosions
All I see is duplicate stories. Seems like business as usual.
So will slashdot be slasdotted? Is that even possible considering slashdot is in sort of a permanent state of slashdottedness?
I've to a load. Any ladies want to help my test it?
As of now, the slashdot stats box is reporting over 405 days of uptime. You're not going to lose that over a move are you?! *sob* I hope not.
"It's the little touches that make a future solid enough to be destroyed" --William S. Bourroughs
I've got a user number that is below 5000. You can buy it at Ebay.
To: Tech department
From: Management
Moving all the data from the East to the West is NOT what we meant when we said "copyleft"!
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"You are not remembered for doing what is expected of you." - Atul Chitnis
but this is unbefsckingleivable!
Physically, it looks like this. And this. And this also.
Technically? I haven't got a clue.
Glad to see Slashdot finally mirroring a site they link to for once...
Just got my first mod points from the new site. I wish Slashdot would move more often :)
brak.slashdot.org is apparently generated via a pack of "Flying Albino Monkeys", whereas the existing server is created via a "Team of Elite Squirrels". Anyone got some performance metrics of Monkeys vs Squirrels, and more importantly, can Monkeys be overclocked?
John Maynard Keynes: "When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?"
So, I think what they really meant it to say was:
You have 30 Moderator Points! Abuse 'em or lose 'em!
Too... much... power... Anyone else feeling drunk?
pi = 3.141592653589793helpimtrappedinauniversefactory7
The description of the hardware in the FAQ is two and a half years old (Last Modified: 6/13/00). It should be What kind of hardware did Slashdot used to run on?
Omigod there is a 70 ms latency difference! Now Slashdot will lose that 70 ms jump it had on the competition!
It's 10 PM. Do you know if you're un-American?
We're moving the Slashdot cluster from Exodus East to Exodus West in the next couple days. In good Slashdot Tradition, we've opened up brak.slashdot.org for you to help load test the new cluster. Currently its almost an exact copy of our existing setup (missing a couple of webheads which will be up soon). The actual move will occur late at night (most likely tonight or tomorrow depending on how things go), and will hopefully involve only a few minutes of downtime as we copy the last of the data over the continent. Thanks for your help.
I think the raging debate over daylight savings time was just too much for the poor server.
Brak: Faithfully served pages from 12:11MST to 2:38MST. We shall miss him.
Things you think are in the Constitution, but are not.
You must not meet many healty women.
"Dying tickles!" -- Ralph Wiggum
Style Sheets?
Yeah, and break all sorts of browsers (Lynx, etc.).
Tables rok!
tell me you didn't just say "schwing".
You'll find a few of these posts on the brak server itself (when it comes back to life). The code went something like this:
/ 2028219&mode=thread&tid=124" & [--- Remove the extra space in the middle ---]
while [ 1 ]
do
wget "http://brak.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/10/29
echo "hello"
done
I run that on an Ultra Enterprise 10000 with a 100mbit/full network drop (not the best network connection but my gigabit ether boxes were doing "real" work). Because this system had 4gb of RAM in it, Maxusers was very high, which resulted in the maxprocs being very high. And the kernel seemed to work very well under that kind of pressure.
Then, for fun, add in another box or two. Presto! Instant simulated Slashdot effect. But then again, I happen to be using a MASSIVE network connection from a very well-known telco. So that gives me a big advantage over most people.
Lesson learned: Wow. I can slashdot Slashdot itself.
I submitted this story two weeks ago, and it was rejected!
Well, unless Taco's decided Brak's had enough of a workout and taken it down without notice, I'd say we've been successful.
Once again, the power of countless geeks wasting time online has been demonstrated. We must always remember that this power can be used for good... or evil....
Good judgment comes from experience.
Experience comes from bad judgment.
Slashdotting a Slashdot Server in just over 3 hours? Wow...
Ha! Funny!
Have Cowboy Neal and Harry Knowles ever been seen in the same room?