[lug] High load with 'w'

[John Starkey]

On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 04:38, rm at fabula.de wrote:
> > A load of 76 on that server is usually when several harvestors, Google,
> > Slurp and Inktomi all go wild. Nothing we really worry about. If we wait
> > a few minutes the honeypot catches the bad guys and it comes back down
> > to 6 or so.
> 
> Seems like there's room for tweaking then ... ;-)

More like room for a new DB server. ;) This site puts out about 7 Mbit
per second, 24x7, without the bad guys or spiders. Most of that is rich
media. We also get a lot of people that want to download the whole site,
with no delay between requests.

John