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- mark076h, on 07/03/2008, -0/+31why did this get buried?
- FrankGoodman, on 07/02/2008, -1/+27Take it down! Down with the 486!
- sega01, on 07/02/2008, -0/+19Here is a detailed (though rather lengthy) blog post covering the project: http://diyist.blogspot.com/2008/06/slashdot-capabl ...
So, is Digg capable of taking it down? - Newsdude, on 07/03/2008, -0/+17...and that's why digg upsets me sometimes. Some pretty cool stuff gets buried every once in a while, while some utter crap makes it to the front page.
Grant it, this isn't really news, but its kind of a cool experiment. I just would like to know what MS's servers were going through in 1992 - Rysac1, on 07/02/2008, -0/+16I feel a DoS attack in your future....
- Andres84, on 07/14/2008, -0/+10http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/1618/funnydk0.j ...
- marcus1060, on 07/02/2008, -0/+9WOAH! That was my 486th digg!
(Though that will be going down soon, since I'm about to go undigg some stuff to see if it makes the recommendation engine suck less) - mark076h, on 07/02/2008, -0/+8You are hosting this from your home? what connection do you have? i imagine your bandwidth being an issue long before the digg effect
also is are you running this on seperate box from this http://go-beyond.org/ ? - jstohler, on 07/02/2008, -0/+8My money's on Digg.
- sega01, on 07/02/2008, -0/+8From a bandwidth perspective, that is possible. But from a CPU perspective, it takes very little to flood a line with static files. I don't have enough bandwidth at home to support a graphically rich website.
- sega01, on 07/02/2008, -0/+7Sorry about the original color scheme being hard to read on some monitors. I just updated it with a new (hopefully more legible) Matrixy color scheme, and added a couple messages. The load average on the 486 was: 1.37, 1.20, 0.97, so it is getting a bit of a work out. `free` says it is using 9024KB of RAM (usually uses just over 7MB).
HardForum has setup multiple auto-refreshers it seems: http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1321640 Please do not use auto-refreshers! While I want the 486 to get as many hits as possible, I also want this to be realistic and fair.
Thanks! - cipicip, on 07/02/2008, -0/+7So far so good. So far... :->
- wishninja, on 07/02/2008, -0/+7refresh... refresh..refresh..refresh.. refresh
- maddvibe, on 07/02/2008, -0/+6Plenty of more powerful machines have fallen to the digg effect. Can't wait to see if the 486 can take it.
- Newsdude, on 07/02/2008, -1/+7I'm sure if the site were graphic intensive, it would go down
- sega01, on 07/02/2008, -1/+7It is a completely dynamic page, showing totals of the top 20 hosts by referer, percentage of hits over IPv6, and percentages of hits by referer to the total hit count. My network can easily support twice as many requests per second as the 486 can push under a full load. However, if enough people hit my other websites hosted on the same connection, the net (512Kbit upload) may become the bottleneck. The blog post describes this with more detail.
- keyme, on 07/02/2008, -0/+6It's possible, I guess. What usually takes a site down, isn't simply a vast amount of traffic. Rather, unnecessary internal complexity is the most likely culprit.
Bad coding along with increased traffic usually results in death. Good code, or simple code, can survive high volumes of traffic easily, though. - techblogLAT, on 07/02/2008, -0/+6This thing will be dead in an hour.
- FrankGoodman, on 07/02/2008, -0/+6Auto refreshers aren't even slowing it down!
- sega01, on 07/02/2008, -0/+6It is still responsive, so I would be suprised if you were doing that. A 100Mbit connection would not be neccesary either. Please do not DOS the site more than you would if it was a typical Digg article. Obviously, real DOS attacks could take it down, but a legitimate Digging is what I am hoping for.
- wsuBobby, on 07/14/2008, -1/+7Start this story back up!
- borez, on 07/03/2008, -0/+6Colours are much more readable now Teran mate.
- fullofbugs, on 07/02/2008, -0/+5most old pcs fail from hard drives failures - had to do a few months on pc recycling - thanks - back to basics love old pcs - hate the egg timers - http://www.fullofbugs.co.uk/ shout back any time
- borez, on 07/02/2008, -0/+5Everybody shout this to everybody else.
Also: Blue text on a black background is horrible to try and read. - sega01, on 07/02/2008, -0/+5For anyone who truly wants to try bringing the 486 down (and has a Slashdot account), here is a link to the Slashdot submission: http://slashdot.org/firehose.pl?op=view&id=748341 . Thanks!
- inactive, on 07/03/2008, -0/+5tried to play doom on a 486 once, 2mgs of ram, lagged like first two weeks in a different country.
- TheMachine1, on 07/02/2008, -0/+5"Could not connect to remote server"
- AngelBunny, on 07/02/2008, -0/+5the net will die before the cpu does because it is just a texted based page with no scripting anything.
- sega01, on 07/02/2008, -0/+5Yes, I am hosting it from my home. I have 8Mbit down and 512Kbit up (though QoS'ed to 460Kbit), which allows me to push twice as many pages as the 486 can handle under full load. I have no monthly bandwidth limits, and the pages will max out at around 3.2KB (currently 2.46KB).
The blog post describes it in better detail ( http://diyist.blogspot.com/2008/06/slashdot-capabl ... ), but the go-beyond.org server is a P3 500Mhz Katamai which proxies requests to the 486 over IPv6. Technically, the 486 is only reachable over IPv6, but IPv4 users will connect through the go-beyond.org server which will forward the requests. - greenvortex, on 07/02/2008, -0/+5Over/Under? I'm guessing crash at 1200 Diggs, if we get that far.
- built2spill, on 07/02/2008, -1/+5Yeah, put a jpg or small Flash game on that page!
- kanabal, on 07/14/2008, -2/+6why did this get buried?
- FrankGoodman, on 07/02/2008, -0/+4I wonder who will be the lucky person to have the 486th digg on this article.
- borez, on 07/02/2008, -1/+5No prob sega, I just thought shouting it would help. My bad.
- diadem2, on 07/02/2008, -0/+4Anyone know what the website runs on?
- chevriley, on 07/02/2008, -0/+4this is gonna go down very soon.
good idea for a project. (y) - sega01, on 07/02/2008, -0/+4I used a 486 DX/2 Overdrive, capable of 66Mhz. The motherboard is only capable of 40Mhz though :-(.
- TheMachine1, on 07/02/2008, -0/+4I'm no expert but reading other peoples replies here its a must that the IP addresses are checked and not permited to reload the same page often.
- inactive, on 07/02/2008, -1/+4This is going to crash when it hits the front page, where it's headed to in a few minutes at this rate!
- jstohler, on 07/02/2008, -0/+3This site is more than HTML. It's processing and displaying dynamic info based on the headers. Plus, it appears to be aggregating overall visitor data, which probably involves a DB.
- sega01, on 07/02/2008, -1/+4While I would love to have this get as many hits as possible, please do not shout it until it hits the front page. A very experienced Digg user told me that shouting actually makes it take longer to hit the front page. While I'm not 100% certain if it is true, it seemed accurate for some of my other submissions. With 195 Diggs and counting; I think it will hit the page with no problem; but thanks for the comment :-).
I have looked at the page on four different LCDs and it has looked fine on each of them. However, you are the third person to say that it is hard to read so I may try tweaking it a bit. - AngelBunny, on 07/03/2008, -0/+3gaw you're right. sorry about that ^_^
- sega01, on 07/02/2008, -0/+3For me, CD drives have been the most consistent to die. But while configuring the 486 the original 428.1MB harddrive died, so I replaced it with my next smallest drive which is a 631MB. Hopefully the current one will last a little longer :-).
- Ledd, on 07/14/2008, -0/+3Wow long load... but it finally came up
- captaindigger, on 07/14/2008, -0/+3SUBMISSION WILL NOT GET BURIED!!!
- Xulfer, on 07/04/2008, -1/+3Well I'm surprised nobody understood my fantastic attempt at humour.
- sega01, on 07/02/2008, -0/+2It says right at the bottom of the page:
"This page is scripted with the WebLua API, which uses Lua. It uses Lighttpd as a webserver, on top of my Arch Linux fork." , linking to each of those. http://go-beyond.org/newdistro/ will redirect to a temporary free wiki for the "Arch Linux fork"; the distribution is in a very beta state right now, and not very user friendly (yet). I will setup a nice (and informative, unlike the current site) site once I can afford decent VPS hosting. - sega01, on 07/02/2008, -0/+2While benchmarking the site when configuring the 486, Apache Bench would always show a strangely high number of content length errors. I tested this from two completely different distributions, with one connecting from IPv4 and the other connecting from IPv6. I tried using the site while benchmarking it, and saw no obvious errors, so I mostly disregarded what Apache Bench said. There were no length errors while testing to another box with almost exactly the same software setup however. If anyone finds any problems and can help with debugging this (if there is a bug to begin with), please let me know. I did not test the memory, so perhaps it could be that.
- borez, on 07/14/2008, -0/+2Well Teran guess it worked mate?
;0) - travbrack, on 07/15/2008, -0/+2pageload took about 3-4 seconds for me.
Not bad for a 486. -
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