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[taikara]

yeah, but do you really think that out of those 100k unique visitors, they mostly just browsed around, not downloading anything? :P

Or that of the 33k we've had today, they *all* downloaded something?

I mean, for 100% of the users today downloading something, we still would have only needed 33% of users on the 100k day downloading something to be roughly (not exactly) equivalent.

Don't get me wrong, I see your point, but from what I've been told, the AB server is pretty sturdy. I'm just curious what part of the script usage could lead to a severe downtime - be it just downloading en masse due to a tech-savvy website article link or otherwise.

For that matter, I have no idea what Kosta's max_connect setting is on the server's MySQL. This could just be a simple matter of having to change the default setting to something a bit higher to allow for instances of higher usage.

Edit: And just so it's clear, I do think the digg.com traffic contributed. I just find the severity of today's slowdown weird.

Edit 2: I think I'll just tell myself that all of the traffic came in those four hours of slowdown even though the article had been up over a day so I can stop wondering about it, since I obviously can't do anything about it, or find out either way :P