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Re: Loading of Lugnet
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Tue, 5 Sep 2000 12:00:18 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
I was doing some stress-testing for about a minute around 3:25 a.m. EST.
I ran 20 copies of something that hammered away on some files and mutexes.
The load average shot up to about 11.  Above 10, the "temporarily • unavailable"
message is triggered.  The limit of 10 is emperical and could probably be
raised to 20 or 50 without hurting things.  It's mainly there to prevent new
web processes from starting up if things are squiffy.

Just for fun, here's a graph showing the load average logged once per minute.

Which is interesting! ...but fairly unreadable via the web interface unless i
paste all the text into a monospaced editor. :-)

I'm not sure there's a good solution to that short of extending FTX capability
to all posts or something equally hard to implement and confusing to users.
UNLESS.. how hard would it be to let the user request to view the post
(another button somewhere ??) in monospace?

My usual trick of starting a reply to see the text failed this time because
it's just a BIT too long I think...

++Lar



Message has 4 Replies:
  Re: Loading of Lugnet
 
(...) shouldn't this be set on the posting side? either with a <mono></mono> tag, or with a checkbox ("This post should be displayed with a monospace font"). The tag is better, since email/news posters could still use it... but the checkbox is (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Loading of Lugnet
 
(...) Using the "View raw message" link (just above the "Reply" icon) will show you the message in monospace. I'd rather not see FTX allowed in posts, because newsreaders won't know what to do with it. The web interface is very nice, but I still (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
  RE: Loading of Lugnet
 
(...) "View Raw Message" (right above "Reply") is probably a better way, Lar. (URL) Lambrecht BXL34@po.cwru.edu (URL) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
  Re: Loading of Lugnet
 
(...) Did you try clicking the "View Raw Message" link...? (...) Maybe some kind of 'X-Foo' header saying to force monospace... --Todd (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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  Re: Loading of Lugnet
 
(...) Just for fun, here's a graph showing the load average logged once per minute. The first two spikes are me running some maintenance stuff and low-stress testings. The big spike after that is the one you encountered. (And the graph is (...) (24 years ago, 5-Sep-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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