[pmwiki-users] Slashdotting?

[Neil Herber (nospam)]

On 2007-05-12 Stirling Westrup is rumoured to have said:
> So, what's the best way to prepare PmWiki for a possible slashdotting? Any advice would be appreciated. 

A page of mine (Alas! not PmWiki) was slashdotted twice on a machine 
that was much more heavily loaded and much less powerful than yours. The 
uplink speed was 1.2 Mbit/s.

I had no idea it would be slashdotted, so I was not prepared at all. The 
only effect was that the mail server running on the same box slowed down 
a bit. I did get some very impressive (to me) activity graphs from the 
web server (WebStar on Mac OS9).

The slashdotting peaks lasted about 8 hours.

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Neil Herber
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