Editing Encyclopedia:Traffic (section)

=== Notes ===

September 4, 2002: Server load average is currently running at between 5 and 6.

 7:00am  up 55 days, 24 min,  2 users,  load average: 4.46, 5.64, 5.85

September 11, 2002: 

On the first anniversary of the WTC attacks, the server was running at 13786 hits/hour in the period 20020911 20:00 to 20:59. If running continuously at this rate, this would equate to a daily hit rate of 330000 hits/day. (Note that the actual whole-day traffic for this day was only 260034 hits.) The server struggled to keep pace with the load on this day.

A few representative "uptime" results for September 11, 2002:
  9:25pm  up 5 days, 17:48,  1 user,  load average: 4.60, 9.68, 13.22
  9:34pm  up 5 days, 17:56,  2 users,  load average: 9.57, 8.64, 10.83
  9:34pm  up 5 days, 17:57,  2 users,  load average: 12.76, 9.38, 11.02
  9:34pm  up 5 days, 17:57,  2 users,  load average: 18.07, 10.80, 11.44
  9:35pm  up 5 days, 17:58,  2 users,  load average: 19.50, 12.29, 11.93
  9:40pm  up 5 days, 18:03,  2 users,  load average: 3.80, 7.92, 10.22
  9:41pm  up 5 days, 18:04,  2 users,  load average: 4.96, 7.74, 10.06

In the minute 20020911 20:35, the server served 305 hits, a rate of just over 5 hits per second sustained, equivalent to a sustained rate of just under 440,000 hits/day. It did this at a loadav of around 19, rather than the typical loadav of 5 or 6.