Actually the slashdot effect has been fairly mild on the servers.  I'm
guessing that the reason other people "feel" it so much is they have a
rather server intense page to begin with, either via massive database
hits, or with a ton of little images all over the page
(thumbnails)...etc etc
For the most part, the little plug mailing list server is serving up a
text only page that is for the most part static.

Even then we only seem to be taking about 1 hit a second.  I would think
that a 386 could dish that out off a floppy with no problems.

Brian Cluff
Team Snaptek

On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 10:59, Joel Dudley wrote:
> Can the servers withstand the slashdot effect? batten down the zombie
> processes, release the squid cache! Man I'm a dork.
> 
> Joel Dudley
> Faculty Research Associate
> Arizona State University
> Kumar Laboratory of Evolutionary Functional Genomics
> http://lsweb.la.asu.edu/skumar/