Tom Burns <[email protected]> wrote: > So we just finished the US Black Friday / Cyber Monday weekend running > unicorn forked with the last version of the patch I had sent you. It > worked splendidly and helped us handle huge flash sales without > increased response time over the weekend. > > Whereas in previous flash traffic scenarios we would see the number of > HTTP 499 responses grow past the number of real HTTP 200 responses, > over the weekend we saw no growth in 499s during flash sales. > > Unexpectedly the patch also helped us ward off a DoS attack where the > attackers were disconnecting immediately after making a request.
That is absolutely wonderful to hear. I've amended your commit message with the above quoted portion. > I've attached the patch again, with your last comments addressed. Let > me know if there's anything else. > > Thanks again for your help in this matter. Thank _you_ for the patch, documentation and most importantly: testing with real traffic. I fixed up some minor line-wrapping, signed-off, and added your quote above to the commit message. Pushed as commit 5c700fc2cf398848ddcf71a2aa3f0f2a6563e87b to git://bogomips.org/unicorn.git I'll tag and push a 4.5.0.preview1 gem soon _______________________________________________ Unicorn mailing list - [email protected] http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/mongrel-unicorn Do not quote signatures (like this one) or top post when replying
