From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 17 16:01:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7298116A4CE for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:01:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 409B943D45 for ; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 16:01:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from fledge.watson.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fledge.watson.org (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i0HNxjUd023799; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 18:59:45 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Received: from localhost (robert@localhost)i0HNxhLc023796; Sat, 17 Jan 2004 18:59:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 18:59:43 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Colin Percival In-Reply-To: <6.0.1.1.1.20040116175159.03f4dd48@imap.sfu.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: chat@freebsd.org cc: "Matthew D. Fuller" Subject: Re: Good BSD/Linux Article (somewhat off-topic) X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2004 00:01:43 -0000 On Fri, 16 Jan 2004, Colin Percival wrote: > At 16:18 16/01/2004, Jamie Bowden wrote: > >I read it from the link off of Daemon News' Daily section. If someone > >wants to /. it, you'll probably need to upgrade your connection for a few > >days, and add filters to your mail to screen the nastygrams you'll be sure > >to get from the shallow (and usually 14yo) end of the Linux Userbase Pool. > > I think the /. effect is overrated these days. Network connections > and processors have gotten faster much more rapidly than the slashdot > readership has grown; the only time slashdot kills anything now is when > people use excessively dynamic pages. My experience is much the same -- I've had various web sites I hosted slashdotted on various occasions, and for a long time I hosted them on a p120 on a small fraction of a T1 without any problem. Of course, I don't use dynamic content, and it seems like the people who really have the problems are the people using a lot of CGI scripts with perl on their front page :-). I suspect that the /. effect has gotten easier to carry over time in part because a lot of the clients are higher bandwidth than they were before -- if you have moderate size files being tranfered, lots of long-lived slow connections take up a lot more memory than short-lived ones. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects robert@fledge.watson.org Senior Research Scientist, McAfee Research