There have been multiple reports that the census system was rated at 260 forms/sec
"At its peak, 150 forms were being submitted per second online. Mr McCormack says this was well within system capacity of 260 forms per second." http://www.9news.com.au/national/2016/08/10/08/50/what-happened-with-the-census That's a steady rate of 936,000/hour If 15 million people tried to complete their census on-line in a three hour period that's 5 million/hour Assuming that's an over estimation by a factor of ten, it's still beyond the capacity of the system. Or to put it another way, at 936,000 per hour it would take 16 hours to collect 15 million censuses There have been claims on twitter that the DDoS was actually just the Australian people logging on to complete their census. Seems quite plausible to me. And might explain the delay in getting back on line. They know it would happen again. Let's see if they try and organise people to fill in their on-line censuses alphabetically, or by state, or star sign, or medicare number ..... That last one could be useful if they want to immediately link to myhealthrecord. No, only joking, a bad joke. -- Regards brd Bernard Robertson-Dunn Sydney Australia email: [email protected] web: www.drbrd.com web: www.problemsfirst.com Blog: www.problemsfirst.com/blog _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
