[IMC-Tech] ghosts

[Arun Bhalla]

		      "You get what you pay for."

"Zachary C. Miller" writes:
> I feel like I'm being haunted by the ghosts of every problem I solved
> for this server over the past 6 years by eventually getting a T1. 
> 
> We had a high but legitimate burst of traffic sustained over about an
> hour just now and it THRASHED our latency. Round trip times for
> packets went to 2 seconds. That really shouldn't be what happens
> during high traffic events, it isn't what happened on the T1.
> 
> It looks like things just fall apart when our total throughput goes
> over 400Kbps. We're sitting at 300Kbps right now. 
> 
> I've done what I can with banning rogue IPs (both spam bots and some
> experiemental search engines that don't play nice) but we had
> legitimate users updating their SVN repositories for CUWiN and it
> slammed us.
> 
> Just one more of many points against this Insight service. We'll see
> how often we get slammed like this.
> 
> We might be able to work around this by throwing some bandwidth
> shaping on a bottle neck router between the cable modem and the
> server. But that's just one more thing on our already huge plate of
> things to do.
> 
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