the "i am routinely looking at access logs of the static file server for purposes of development" version of "someone's talking about me, my ears are burning!":
someone (no idea who or where) posted a link to https://glasgow-embedded.org/latest/conduct.html, prompting the herd of mastodons to follow up with ~350 requests over the span of about 1 minute
the eagle-eyed of you may have noticed that i have, too, posted the link. and it even attracted 150% as many mastodons!
(by no means 5 req/s is a problem. i think it would have to get to 100-200 req/s for people to even start noticing that the server is under load, based on my earlier testing)
@mei yeah i was deploying a change in configuration i was particularly concerned about, and just as i kicked it off i got the access logs scrolling up at lightspeed
@whitequark techbros: "oh no, mastodon of the indieweb is terrible and will kill your website by sending 500 requests over a minute if someone with a large following posts a link to it! We will call this the hug of death."
Also techbros: write "AI" scrapers which hammer your indieweb git forge "blame" endpoint at 1000 sustained requests per second.
@whitequark this is really funny because these posts are on the same screen on my feed
@whitequark what software are you using to generate this graph?
