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Slashdot is Moving. Help Load Test!

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the please-wear-a-hardhat dept.

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.

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  1. Moving to West? by yonnage · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Does that mean it's moving to west coast?

  2. Load test is inverted by Illuminati+Member · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Wouldn't it be a better load test to make www.slashdot.org the load testing server, and old.slashdot.org the server to go to if something breaks?

    Honestly, you aren't getting a good load test by putting up a link (at least, not a good 'slashdot' loadtest).

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  3. Moderators: by Neil+Blender · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If you are a moderator, you have 5 fresh points waiting for you on the new server. You can use them there without affecting the number of points you have on this server. One of the very few times you get 10 points instead of 5.

  4. You have to admit... by Bobulusman · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What better way to field test a server than to give every /. member 30 points and watch them waste several hours loading and reloading to mod!! Not to mention all the people who only read occasionally and are showing up just to see the fireworks....

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  5. It's a mad house over there... by Bobulusman · · Score: 3, Insightful

    It seems that all the insane people are now on the new server. The mods being thrown around do not seem to make any sense.

    Especially when two of my posts (very on topic, legitimate) were both modded +2 troll.... Odd....

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  6. Re:You have 30 Moderator Points! Use 'em or lose ' by TheGreatGraySkwid · · Score: 5, Insightful
    "Is this a bug in the slashcode or what? I thought you could only get 5 modpoints at a time... and my "points" don't show up on regular /.

    Insight anyone? Will i get $rtbl for going on a modding spree?"
    Don't be silly. They *want* you to moderate the hell out of things, in part to stress the system, and in part to encourage all the trolls to do their thing (stressing the system).

    Interestingly, I used all 30 points, did my Meta-modding, and then came back a bit later to find I then had 60 points!
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