The first gnu-hurd web server went down because of slashdot effect.
TCP stack overflawed and crashed.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ilya Konstantinov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 4:54 PM
> To: Chen Shapira
> Cc: Omer Musaev; 'Hetz Ben Hamo'; Oren Held; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: iglu on slashdot
>
>
> On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 04:46:18PM +0200, Chen Shapira wrote:
> > And next time, do coordinate such activity with the actcom
> people, you could
> > have DOSed their network.
>
> Yes, I admit I decided to take a risk :)
>
> Anyhow, at peak times, we reached about 130 HTTP processes (less than
> the 150 MaxClients). The HTTP server's transfer
> (http://www.iglu.org.il/stats/mrtg/traffic_http.html) went up
> to around
> 40kb/s.
>
> In sum, the linux_report.html was downloaded 19837 times, while
> linux_report.pdf (not linked in the story itself) 255 times.
>
> I doubt CPU usage ever went over 2%. So tell me, what are those
> machines that keep falling under "Slashdot loads" ?
>
> --
> Best regards,
> Ilya Konstantinov
>
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