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Beat on the Server 1 More Time

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the ducks-in-a-row dept.

The new box is stabilizing at 206.170.14.76. Thanks to the several of you who've commented on various things. Yeah, its a bit slow- but thats actually because I think we were hitting our bandwidth cap. Anyway I've got a new kernel and I've shut off the useless services, and I think we're almost ready, but I need some of that Slashdot Effect for once to make sure we're gonna go uninterupted tomorrow. So go to 206.170.14.76 for a couple minutes and post some comments or something. Lets see how revved up this beast really is. (don't worry about 404s- I haven't moved the 200 megs of old articles over yet) Update: 03/09 01:31 by CT : Wow! You guys kicked more pages out of that thing than I would have thought possible. It was doing about 3 times the load of Slashdot. I think its stable. You can be gentle again *grin*

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  1. 200 megs? by drwiii · · Score: 1
    Only 200 megs? Release a CD!

    linuxonline.org

  2. I logged in but by mackga · · Score: 1

    couldn't get anything but the top banners. After a few reloads, nothing at all. Lemme try again......hmm, nope. 11:52 am here EST just contect contacting blah blah.

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  3. a really annoying song... by PHroD · · Score: 1

    ...comes to mind: "Hit me baby one more time"

    hehe

  4. first beating!!!! by soren.harward · · Score: 1

    looks good so far Rob

  5. Update: 03/09 09:16 by BK: by bkosse · · Score: 1

    THUD. that didn't take long.

    :)

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  6. Looks better than yesterday by Cookie+Monster · · Score: 1

    Anything over 20 ms is slow
    triton comes in fine :)


    traceroute to 206.170.14.75 (206.170.14.75), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
    1 routerA.galaxy-net.net (207.90.164.254) 2.908 ms 4.211 ms 3.122 ms
    2 166-90-118-209.geo.net (166.90.118.209) 7.528 ms 8.574 ms 8.078 ms
    3 SF-core1-f0.geo.net (166.90.5.4) 7.462 ms 8.25 ms 9.52 ms
    4 pb-nap.pbis.net (198.32.128.23) 10.199 ms 8.765 ms 8.484 ms
    5 ded1-fe12-0-0.snfc21.pbi.net (206.13.28.83) 8.962 ms 19.137 ms 9.579 ms
    6 209.232.138.214 (209.232.138.214) 9.368 ms 9.791 ms 9.718 ms
    7 triton.slashdot.org (206.170.14.75) 13.258 ms 20.616 ms 12.283 ms

  7. The 'Walnut Creek' of Geek News! by nacho · · Score: 1

    Hey, I'd pay for a quarterly subscription of Slashdot on a Disc. Just think, if Slashdot is /.ed, we can still get our geek news. It'd also be a lot more convenient to search locally through a large bunch'o data. Put it in some delimited format and distribute it like the USPS distributes it's zipcode data.

  8. Distro wars already? by nacho · · Score: 1

    Isn't it amazing how fast such a non-distro topic turned into a Debian vs. Redhat war?

    Personally, if it's free and runs the Linux kernel, I'm on it! Who cares where files are put, and how packages are managed. If you're so fussy about RPM or somesuch nonsense, just use sources for everything.

    Personally, I use Redhat, but only use it for the absolute *minimum* base install...everything beyond that I compile by hand.

  9. seems to be good Perfectly by The+Joker · · Score: 1

    Let's switch soon

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  10. Looks better than yesterday by Robert+Chin · · Score: 1

    Heh...Here's mine :)

    1 adsl-216-100-248-254.dsl.pacbell.net (216.100.248.254) 23.935 ms 24.157 ms 31.861 ms
    2 srvr1.snfc21.pbi.net (206.13.28.1) 16.673 ms 14.648 ms 16.337 ms
    3 ded1-fe11-1-0.snfc21.pbi.net (209.232.130.4) 15.328 ms 14.451 ms 16.207 ms
    4 209.232.138.214 (209.232.138.214) 16.116 ms 15.985 ms 16.609 ms
    5 triton.slashdot.org (206.170.14.75) 26.256 ms 16.207 ms 18.498 ms

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  11. Worldwide /. Network by Dungus · · Score: 1

    Are you offering to fund it?

  12. 390 kb/s by Teethgrinder · · Score: 1

    about a dozen connects per min.

    Maybe I should get a provider thats less then 25 hops away from /. ;)

  13. If ya really want to test it... by T.J.Hooker · · Score: 1


    I you really want to test it, mirror the
    star wars trailer on it for a few hours.

    --T

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  14. Ouch! I'm 17 hops away! by edgy · · Score: 1

    Is anyone any worse off than me?

    Well, at least I have a cable modem. Nyah. :-)

    traceroute to triton.slashdot.org (206.170.14.75), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
    1 bab60-1.optonline.net (167.206.60.1) 20.86 ms 17.42 ms 17.881 ms
    2 10.8.80.1 (10.8.80.1) 20.351 ms 22.864 ms 23.796 ms
    3 cv-bb-hicks-01-fe-3-0.cvnet.com (10.1.1.75) 27.097 ms 64.866 ms 103.594 ms
    4 sl-gw11-pen-11-0-T3.sprintlink.net (144.228.164.5) 27.189 ms 37.833 ms 24.678 ms
    5 sl-bb11-pen-2-2.sprintlink.net (144.232.5.81) 30.047 ms 25.654 ms 23.85 ms
    6 sl-bb12-pen-10-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.5.158) 23.653 ms 26.769 ms 23.262 ms
    7 sl-bb10-rly-5-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.8.153) 26.689 ms 27.701 ms 24.047 ms
    8 sl-bb12-rly-9-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.7.214) 23.556 ms 28.628 ms 23.799 ms
    9 sl-bb1-rly-4-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.0.34) 25.143 ms 28.477 ms 24.131 ms
    10 beth1sr2-2-0.md.us.ibm.net (165.87.97.226) 30.838 ms 27.282 ms 30.787 ms
    11 165.87.29.162 (165.87.29.162) 31.02 ms 29.798 ms 30.854 ms
    12 sfra1br2-2-0-1.ca.us.ibm.net (165.87.230.102) 138.019 ms 120.268 ms 137.402 ms
    13 165.87.13.42 (165.87.13.42) 126.1 ms 126.464 ms 126.738 ms
    14 165.87.161.73 (165.87.161.73) 119.358 ms 120.494 ms 120.174 ms
    15 ded1-fe12-0-0.snfc21.pbi.net (206.13.28.83) 117.514 ms 120.036 ms 119.906 ms
    16 209.232.138.214 (209.232.138.214) 126.501 ms 123.852 ms 124.8 ms
    17 triton.slashdot.org (206.170.14.75) 133.482 ms 127.02 ms 145.201 ms

  15. new server by aladdin1 · · Score: 1

    it's doing some pretty wierd thingson my side. anyway, keep up the great work!

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  16. Redhat by Sentry21 · · Score: 1

    However once you get that stuff out of the way it does just as well as any of the other Linux's (How does one make Linux plural?).

    The same way one makes 'box' plural, with an -en ending... Boxen, linuxen...

  17. Worldwide /. Network by Sentry21 · · Score: 1

    We could just use the same DNS, could we not? Like

    Canada - candot.slashdot.org
    Europe - swissdot.slashdot.org
    Far East - japdot.slashdot.org

    I think those three would spread the load fairly evenly, more or less. It gives us Canucks our own server so we don't have to bang on slashdot/cachedot, Europe has one, and the Far east has one. Those are pretty much the major population centres, we'd have two/three in NA (is cachedot it's own server?), one in Europe, and one in Japan.

    Try and get the servers all on networks connected to somewhere like Teleglobe - it has a huge backbone system across the world, supports a hundred ISPs around the world, and seems pretty decent. Satelites and the whole bit. Hmmm... Fast to update. I propose Vancouver (my nearest NAP =]) or Toronto, London, and Miyazaki (did I spell that right?)..

  18. Worldwide /. Network by Sentry21 · · Score: 1

    All it would cost is the price to put servers in those three places - if you find an ISP that is willing to hook you up over a T1 for cheap, then there's your server (well, the server's your problem, but you know what I mean).

    Anyway, it would be the ideal setup...

    ~Sentry21~

  19. scalability by hatless · · Score: 1

    Is one big big piece of iron really the best way to demonstrate Linux scalability? Maybe the next step is to distribute the processing load, perhaps by putting the logic on ORBs on separate machines and making your (perl, php3, servlets, whatever) real thin.

  20. Lookit the source. :) by deusx · · Score: 1

    RTFS. Uses a MySQL database of messages.

    Unfortunately for my projects, I still hav eto use that old method of pretending there's a databse by making files. :( Sucks when you're doing work for a client who doesn't have and won't get a database yet expects database driven sites.

  21. Won't get a database? by kuro5hin · · Score: 1

    mySQL, as I'm sure you know, is free. Your client won't pay that much? Looks like it's time to drum up new business! ;)

    Right there with ya...

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  22. New server is rockin! by Vskye · · Score: 1

    Seems like the new server is working *very* well! This is nice..., now my favorite web site is even faster. ;) Thanks /.!

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  23. Looks good from here. by Tank · · Score: 1

    The server looked good on 5 views & 3 replies... Definately faster than when I tested yesterday... Don't know why others might have had problems....

  24. slashdot effect by dria · · Score: 1

    What some affectionately call the slashdot effect, others call a "denial of service attack". I still can't get through to the new server.

    How long do you think it will take sites to pay Rob to -not- link to them?

    - d

  25. Slashdotted to death? by Col.+Klink+(retired) · · Score: 1

    I tried to make a post, but I keep getting:

    Error

    The requested operation could not be performed by the proxy.

    Document contains no data

    Tried 6 times.

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  26. Don't use winders! by chrisv · · Score: 1

    It's so 1898.

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  27. Slashdot mirrors? by Azul · · Score: 1

    It would be very hard to put mirrors of slashdot because its contents are permanently changing. They would have to be updated every 10 minutes and the html forms would still have to be linked to the central server. Sounds like a headache.

    AFC.

  28. new /. not really being tested? by coldnight · · Score: 1

    Hi - poked around at the code on some pages, looks like all image files are being refrenced off the old /. server (images.slashdot.org). So I wonder if these tests are not a true test for the new machine. If the images are there, we can pull 'em down directly...

  29. 200 megs? by mkoscica · · Score: 1

    Slashdot CD...$5.99 at your local newsagent...sounds good...

    Of course, here in Australia, it'd be $17.95 thanks to import charges and other crap =/

  30. 1.4k/sec .. much slower than this server by Zebulun · · Score: 1

    took a while for things to load (usually things load in an instant (+10k). otherwise okay.

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  31. Slashdot mirrors? by _Roadkill · · Score: 1
    Has anyone even thought about setting up mirrors of /.? The new machine is nice and everything, but wouldn't it be wiser in saving CPU and bandwith if u spread it across mirrors? Just Curious...

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  32. seems to be good by GnuGrendel · · Score: 1

    but a little slow, like you said...

  33. Timed Out by PsykhoKiwi · · Score: 1

    Can't Connect to the server, I keep getting a time out don't really know why

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  34. get some bandwitdh. by snafu · · Score: 1

    really.

  35. I think it be slashdotted by MISplice · · Score: 1

    Just tried to log on again and nothing for about 10 minutes.

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  36. a Little slow by GW+Hayduke · · Score: 1

    but then again I AM 17 hops away over some shoddy backbones

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  37. I believe we're at the edge by GW+Hayduke · · Score: 1

    Starting to Lag out..... 12:14 EST

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  38. Hehe by Ellis-D · · Score: 1

    beat on the brat w/ a base bat, oh yeah, oh yeah!!
    Couldn't help myself there.

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