I don't know what it could be. We took a spike during the VMAs, but that
doesn't match with your data. I'd examine your connection logs to see if you
were cycling excessively in the past, or dropping tweets due to parsing
errors, or something of that sort...

-John


On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Sanjay <sanjay.par...@gmail.com> wrote:

> John - yeah, I saw the increase from that bump previously but if you
> look at the graph I included, this current bump is greater still.
> Mind you, I'm not complaining just trying to understand what is going
> on.  If this increase is short lived I won't try to design around it.
> If it's going to be sustained, I want this data being sent down the
> pipe.  Right now I'm seeing between 2k and 3k updates every 30 seconds
> whereas before a few days ago it was between 1k and 2k updates every
> 30 seconds.  Any scoop would be helpful for planning purposes.
> Thanks!
>
> Sanjay
>
> On Sep 13, 12:05 pm, John Kalucki <j...@twitter.com> wrote:
> > We increased the Gardenhose on August 30, as announced here:
> http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-api-announce/browse_thread/thr...
> > .
> >
> > We haven't changed the proportion since. A Streaming API application
> should
> > always be prepared for accept spikes of at least three, if not four times
> as
> > large as daily peak traffic.
> >
> > -John Kaluckihttp://twitter.com/jkalucki
> > Twitter, Inc.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Sanjay <sanjay.par...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I just took a look at my bandwidth usage from last night to see the
> > > effect of the VMAs (dramatic BTW), and thought I'd check it out over
> > > the last week.  It looks like gardenhose has been ramping up since
> > > late Sept 10th/early Sept 11th.  Is this intentional?  Any idea where
> > > we're ending.  My DB isn't keeping up with this so I need to
> > > reorganize if we're going to keep at this level.  Help?  Thoughts?
> >
> > >http://twitpic.com/2o3ewf
> >
> > > Sanjay
> >
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