Slashdot comments during the slashdot event on 10 August 2003

David P. Anderson
Department of Geological Sciences
Southern Methodist University



The comments section for user feedback on the slashdot.org archive provided useful information about the access rates of the server during these events. The time stamps on the comments are EDT (GMT-4) and can be used to correlate the comments with the web server data logs.

Here are a few postings which provided some useful data points:

initial peak of server activity

sweeney37 on Sunday August 10, @05:41PM writes:
Wait... is this a challenge?
caluml on Sunday August 10, @05:59PM writes:
Lets help them out.
while :; do wget http://www.geology.smu.edu/~dpa-www/venus/mpeg/atla1.mpg -O /dev/null -o /dev/null ; done
Pharmboy on Sunday August 10, @06:06PM writes:
i already posted mine before i saw yours. my solution was
while true
do
wget --delete-after -m -p http://www.geology.smu.edu/
done

which has the advantage of not only hammering their bandwidth, but since it requests everything on the entire site, including images and many multiple mb files, then the server cant cache it all, and will have to read from the disk alot. also, since it deletes after downloading, it doesn't take up your precious drive space, lol.
Latent IT on Sunday August 10, @06:07PM writes:
Ping statistics for 129.119.223.84:
Packets: Sent = 16, Received = 16, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 56ms, Maximum = 74ms, Average = 60ms

I mean, that's pretty damn smooth for a 30 minute old story.
That's probably peak /. effect time, too. I'm really proud of them, and their little beige boxes. =)
Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 10, @06:36PM writes:
31.25K/s and rising
scottj on Sunday August 10, @06:45PM writes:
I'm getting about 30KBps on this link.
Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 10, @06:57PM writes:
I get about 100k/sec.
wilhelm on Sunday August 10, @07:03PM writes:
359kb/s ... but I'm on a University connection now too, so it's possible if they are an I2 school as we are, that it's routing my traffic over I2.

second peak of server activity


TheMidget on Monday August 11, @07:42AM writes:
For those of you with phat pipes:
while : ; do wget -o /dev/null -O /dev/null \
http://www.geology.smu.edu/~dpa-www/venus/mpeg/atla2.mpg & sleep 2 ; done
Anonymous Coward on Monday August 11, @08:59AM writes:
Over 300KB/s for those mpegs :p
Anonymous Coward on Monday August 11, @12:01PM writes:
394 KBps ... ... Done. :)
DaLiNKz on Monday August 11, @12:44AM
160kb/s (my max).. smooth downloading...
...this space for rent..



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