Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 04:07:14 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Joost Schuur <jschuur@onlinemagic.net> Cc: ftp-stats@wcarchive.cdrom.com, tech@cdrom.com, chat@freebsd.org, jc@crl.com Subject: Re: Dual Log Stats - 1997/08/29 Message-ID: <199708291107.EAA16591@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Aug 1997 04:29:30 CDT." <3.0.3.32.19970829042930.00c70d10@pants.onlinemagic.net>
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>>The previous record of 185GB was set on June 26th. The extremely high total >>for idgames2 (and the cause of the new record) is due to the release of the >>"Hexen 2" game. We were at our 2000 user limit almost immediately when the >>game was put up (about 12:15PM PDT) and stayed at the limit for the rest of >>the day. > > it would appear the activision web site didn't list any other mirror sites >other than wcarchive for the whole day and even worse, one of their own ftp >sites >went down right after the release. i've supplied activision's webmaster a list >of additional ftp sites that carry the demo, so they can ease the load on >ftp.cdrom.com. As others have said, this isn't a problem and I'm not the least bit unhappy about it. The load does point out that we will need to perform another hardware upgrade at some point, however - on a "normal" day we often have around 1600 users on at any time, so it doesn't take much to put us at the 2000 limit. It would be nice if we had enough reserve capacity to handle special days like yesterday. I estimate that we could have handled everyone (not turned anyone away) if the limit had instead been around 3000. The main problem is lack of main memory, but we're pretty much out of CPU cycles at 2000 users as well. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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