[Foundation-l] Wikimedia crosses 10Gbit/sec

Mon Jan 11 18:25:09 UTC 2010

2010/1/11 Domas Mituzas <midom.lists at gmail.com>:

>> . This
>> peak rate was achieved while serving roughly 91,725 requests per
>> second.

> I don't think this is good number - as there were around 9000 requests-a-second handled by a separate server (That is not included in request stats).
> Also the increase in bandwidth could be because were blacklisted some requests, and they could've been receiving much larger "access denied" wikimedia error page.
> Still, it was a fun day.

Someone should write this up for the techblog, or the main WMF blog.
Greg's text with some tweaks and caveats, as you note?

- d.