High Load Average

Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 19:00:42 -0300 (ADT)
From: "David L. Potter" <potter@chebucto.ns.ca>
To: Don Tate <dtate03@cfl.rr.com>
cc: Bill Crant <crant@chebucto.ns.ca>, editors@chebucto.ns.ca
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Hi Don... 

The difference should be hits on the first page and then hits on all 
other pages combined.... 

We're working on ideas to improve the reporting we'd be interested in 
hearing what kind of numbers you'd like... it would be best to prioritize 
the wishlist... ;-)

david potter


On Thu, 4 May 2000, Don Tate wrote:

> David
> 
> As a former System Administrator for a Community college here, You have
> my full sympathies.
> 
> I will be glad to work with you in any way you would like to at any time
> that is convient for you. I really believe I did it by downloading
> several directories at a time. If I stay with single directories at a
> time and don't do multiple connections, I should relieve the load on you
> considerably. My feel is that the multiple connections on my end were a
> good part of the problem so I will eliminate that from the equation from
> this point on.
> 
> New Question:
> 
> On the Page Statistics (Number of hits per day). What is the difference
> between the the two sets of numbers? 
> 
> For example on the 30th of April the page showed the following for the
> NGB overall:
> 
> 13,495 on the one set and 331 on the second set.
> 
> Secondly, is there any way to obtain summaries instead of my calling up
> many separate pages to obtain daily counts for graphing.
> 
> 
> Don
> 
> "David L. Potter" wrote:
> > 
> > Hi Don...
> > 
> > Quite allright (that's what they pay is volunteers the big bucks for... the
> > work is never done... ;-)
> > 
> > One the second launch, I locked down ftp temporarily... what I'd really
> > like to do is a test to see how much traffic of this type can be handled
> > without everything deteriorating completely...
> > 
> > For the moment I would prefer if you didn't do anything significant until
> > after 8:00 p.m. your time... (florida ?)
> > 
> > I expect that large downloads can be handled without any problem after
> > from about 10 PM your time until about 2 PM in the afternoon and all day
> > Sat/Sunday.
> > 
> > We tend to do a bunch of processing of our own between midnight and 6:AM
> > (our time) including our major backups that catch all your stuff also.
> > This happens 7 days a week but we tend to spread it out over the evening.
> > 
> > If you want to schedule a test at some point we can probably figure out
> > how many concurrent downloads can be managed from us to you...
> > 
> > I'll put you back in the 'good' books as far as ftp goes...
> > 
> > david potter
> > 
> > On Thu, 4 May 2000, Don Tate wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > > David
> > >
> > > My apologies to you. Did not realize I was causing a problem. What I was
> > > doing was downloading most of the site material to duplicate our
> > > information on my hard drive so I could do more here at home without
> > > connecting to you.
> > >
> > > Had done it one time in the past but didn't cause a problem then. This
> > > time though, the difference may be that I am on a cable modem instead of
> > > a 28K phone modem as before. Was downloading several directories at the
> > > same time. In the future will stay with a single directory at a time if
> > > I need to do it again.
> > >
> > > Again apologies for causing you any problems. Was unintentional.
> > >
> > > Don
> > >
> > > --
> > > Don Tate
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