I imagine many of you noticed that the site maxed out last night after the overtime goal by Havlat.
To put things in perspective:
We peak out at about 8-10 hits/second during a busy lunch hour or just after a regular season game. That puts the server load average between 1 and 2.
Last night we maxed out at 44.69 hits/second which put the server load up over 20. In our case, anything over 2 means we're overloaded. So a 20 means that we had 18 processes waiting in a queue waiting to use a CPU.
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