The Slashdot Effect Investigated 32
Grenamier writes "Stephen Adler analysed his httpd logs after he published some papers and had mentions made of them on Slashdot, freshmeat.org and linuxtoday.org. The results showed a pretty dramatic demonstration of the Slashdot Effect. "
Where's the part where servers melt? Anyway, this amused me
so I figured I'd share.
Slashdot Effect is a Wired Jargon (Score:1)
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I don't recall seeing things on any of those papers mentioned though, so I'm wondering what kind of a load a server gets in the case of the stories that really catch people's attention. 100 hits per minute is pretty low, even if you're going to a site doing dynamic content. I'm wondering what sort of server hardware/software is being used on sites that have real problems as a result of the slashdot effect.
100 hits per minute of files that take more than a dozen seconds or so to download could bring servers down that run Apache and have limits on the number of children they can spawn. (150 default?)
My guess is its large numbers of modem users not large numbers of hits that really causes the
Maybe a slashdot poll asking what speeds people view slashdot at?
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Steven Adler (Score:1)
People with too much time on their hands... (Score:1)
paradox? (Score:1)
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Newbie question - how do you analyze? (Score:1)
I've looked around for this but haven't found anything... Do you have to interpret it from Apache's "access_log" file?
Thanks for any help
What hubris (Score:1)
Today's lesson: Just because you though of a cute new name for it doesn't mean you're the first to discover it.
Okay, flame off. I don't blame you folks personally. On the whole, the mainstream press is MUCH WORSE about this than
Always found it odd... (Score:1)
Newbie question - how do you analyze? (Score:1)
Did Slashdot.org ever ... (Score:1)
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Its the Lemming Effect, kids... (Score:1)
I can attest to the existence... (Score:1)
I managed to get mentioned in a story about ClearType, and I'm telling you, my site got hammered. Much worse than anything I've ever seen from Slashdot, but I've never been in a _story_ in Slashdot, only comments, and that may be a difference. I figure if I can survive the MacInTouch effect, I could also survive a Slashdot Effect, as they appear to be roughly comparable and it depends on how obligatory the link seems. Many people wanted to read about ClearType issues- indeed, it may have been very indirectly Slashdottish, as I believe Slashdot was mentioning the MacInTouch Cleartype story. Mind you, MacInTouch is analogous to Slashdot and used to that kind of traffic...
Smartypants (Score:1)
Geez... (Score:1)
Same For My Site (Score:1)
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