Have you thought about testing the load with a hosted web service? Some offer by GEO location
"Martin v. Löwis" wrote: > >> Nice one. I tried clicking around on the wiki as quickly as I could, >> and it didn't seem to block me :) >> >> It feels more responsive, compared to when I was using it yesterday. >> Saving pages seems to be especially faster than before at the moment. > > That might depend on the time of the day - load is low at the moment. > So far, nobody got locked out but myself, in testing. > >> Do you consider the cases where multiple people use one ip? Like at >> conferences, companies, and from large isps that use proxies (eg AOL)? >> It sounds like you have. > > Not really - it's only that the formula allows for quite many > simultaneous access, as long as they don't run for a long period of > time. E.g if "normal" people read 20 pages per hour (which they > don't sustain over several hours), we can have 90 such users > simultaneously. > > The busy hour is 19:00..20:00 GMT, the wiki gets roughly 3600 > requests in that hour total (on average in July) - > so allowing one request every two seconds from a bot is fairly > permissive. > > At a conference, if people are told simultaneously to look at the > same page, we can only accommodate 30 people doing so. The next > 30 people will have to wait 15s. So if the entire conference of > 200 people access the page within 30s, some will see the overload > page. If this turns out to be a problem, the limit of 30 can be > raised (without raising the allowed request rate); if it's raised > to, say, 400, then we can take a spike of 400 accesses, which > then takes 13 minutes to decay. > > Regards, > Martin > _______________________________________________ > Catalog-SIG mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/PyPI-outage-tf4214712.html#a12098124 Sent from the Python - catalog-sig mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Catalog-SIG mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/catalog-sig
