oops, its 1700GMT, which is, I think, 5am NZT? My bad.
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From: "Nic Wise" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Multiple recipients of list delphi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2001 10:08 AM
Subject: [DUG]: Fw: Help us stress test the chat server! (and talk about
next gen web services)
> this is, I think, 3pm NZDT wednessday, but I'm not sure. The site is not
up
> quite yet, tho :)
>
> > On May 8, 2001, at 10:00am PDT (1700 GMT) we will be hosting a moderated
> > live chat
> > on the Borland Community Web Site.
> >
> > The subject of this chat will be "Borland's Next Generation Web Services
> > Strategy."
> >
> > Since this could be of interest to one or two people out there, the chat
> > may
> > get a little crowded, so we'd like to do some capacity testing TONIGHT
> > for it.
> >
> > If the site is configured appropriately in time, Anders Oh!, Christine
> > Ellis and
> > myself will be moderating a general, free-for-all test chat in the
> > Delphi room at
> > 7:00 pm PDT (200 GMT, Tuesday) to see how much traffic our router can
> > stand.
> >
> > The link for the chat test is: http://chatjet.borland.com/delphi
> >
> > If this room isn't available yet, that means it hasn't been configured
> > properly yet.
> >
> > (A little background)
> > For the Kylix launch chat, we had about 120 people, then we started
> > experiencing
> > bandwidth problems with the router. The chat machine itself was fine, of
> > course,
> > since it was built with Kylix <g>. For the Interbase chat, we had just
> > under 100
> > people (97, IIRC) so we don't know for sure if the load problems have
> > been solved.
> >
> > So, we'd like to try to get 300 - 500 people hitting the box tonight if
> > possible.
> > If you can help test it, I'd really appreciate it. If we hit problems
> > with some
> > lower number, we can throttle back the chat server to deny additional
> > people
> > logging in to the chat. Obviously, everyone is welcome to attend, so
> > we'd like
> > to make sure we can gracefully handle an overload of people and give
> > them a "room
> > capacity has been set at <x> by the fire marshall" message instead of
> > some ugly
> > web error.
> >
> > If you can help participate in the chat, or you haven't heard of our
> > chat server
> > before, please go to http://community.borland.com/chat/ to make sure
> > you're all
> > set for the chats both at 200 GMT and at 1700 GMT.
> >
> > Thanks for your help keeping the community site working for you.
> >
> > --
> > John Kaster, Borland Developer Relations, http://community.borland.com
> > $1150/$50K: Thanks to my donors!
> > http://homepages.borland.com/jkaster/tnt/thanks.html
> > Buy Kylix! http://www.borland.com/kylix * Got source?
> > http://codecentral.borland.com
> > The #1 Java IDE: http://www.borland.com/jbuilder
>
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