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

This morning, I got to see how well DWiki could stand up to high load.While getting attacked by something that has all the signs of a spambotgone berserk doesn't exactly make me happy, I was cheered to see that DWiki stood up to the situation.

(And there's a little bit of me that's dancing around in triumphthat all of the work that I've done to prepare for this finallypaid off and actually worked out for real.)

Over the incident DWiki averaged