Load Testing the New Server (Take 2)

Load testing the new boxes is going well: I've actually flushed out a pair of really bizarre bugs. If you're up for more load testing, feel free to visit the new box but let me remind you that we're trying to simulate normal activity- just lots of it, so writing a script that tries to submit the same comment a few thousand times in a few minutes just isn't gonna help (for that matter, just reloading the same page doesn't help either really) And thanks to the guy from 209.80.X.X (I'm sure you know who you are) who must have been running something really smart 'cuz (except for the fact that it was all coming from one IP) it was pulling down like 20 different pages a second! Anyway, the new setup was handling ~3x the usual Slashdot load for awhile there. I wanna try to get to 4x and see how that goes. Then we just gotta change the DNS, and there shall be faster Slashdot for everyone!

Comments

Re:I'm first

[jd]

Ooooh! A "Black Ice" function!

victim = isFirstPoster(getPoster());
hang(victim);
draw(victim);
quarter(victim);