At least for personal code, I've decided that my standard for what Iconsider the clearest idiom for something is usually what first comesto mind when I try to write code to do the something. My idea here isthat if a particular approach is what came to mind first when I tried tosolve the problem, it is quite likely to be obvious to me what the codeis trying to do when I reread it in the future because clearly thisparticular approach is what is on the top of my mind

This week, we:

• got 10,691 messages from 231 different IP addresses.
• handled 17,807 sessions from 1,456 different IP addresses.
• received 301,407 connections from at least 76,444 different IPaddresses.
• hit a highwater of 11 connections being checked at once.

Connection volume is up slightly from last week , but at this point 10,000 connections a weekmore or less is probably

Recent events have made me morecurious than ever about just how big the Slashdot effect is. If you get linked toby one of the popular sites like Slashdot, Digg, or reddit, how muchload are you actually going to get hit with?

(Correspondingly, if you are trying to make sure a web application canstand up to a Slashdotting, how much load do you need to be able tohandle?)

Unfortunately, good current data is hard to come by; most of the reportson the details