I've been playing with my server's "net speed" setting over the past few days to see what effect it had on my traffic. The result seems to be, not much. Am I right?
My server is 72.36.170.170, I have usage graphs here: http://www.somebits.com/~nelson/tmp/ntp/one%20week.html. It had been set at a net speed of 1.5Mbit for months. I upped it to 10Mbit about on 2007-09-24 16:30Z , and again to 100Mbit at 2007-09-25 21:30Z. Looking at my graphs, the change from 1.5 -> 10 had no effect on traffic I received. Going 10->100 seems to send me about 50% more traffic, but it's almost all in the form of a couple of big bursts that look like the old DNS server tossed me into the pool briefly. I'm now serving about 17 requests / second. Some of the discussion here suggested going 10 -> 100 would result in a 10x increase in traffic. That alarmed me and I'm glad to see it's not that drastic. But exactly how does the new DNS treat the bandwidth setting? While I'm here.. if you look at my graphs, you'll see I'm plotting a couple of measures of client "good behaviour". I track all IP addresses in a 10 minute window and then count up what percentage of those IPs sent more than 20 requests in that 10 minutes. I also measure a simple average requests / IP metric. The results are pretty stable over two months. There's noticeable changes when the server was placed in the pool (under the old system); the new clients send more requests / IP but relatively fewer are sending more than twice a minute. Not a very interesting result, honestly. I'll check again in a year and see how overall our client population is doing. _______________________________________________ timekeepers mailing list [email protected] https://fortytwo.ch/mailman/cgi-bin/listinfo/timekeepers
