It's Time to Play THERMO NUCLEAR SERVERRRR!!!!

[AGD]

AO Masters of Destruction!

It is once again time to play that game you all heard of but never got to try...Thermo...Nuclear...SERVER!!

We spent the big money on the super server for this site. John and the guys at Delaware.net have dual fiber T3 sewer pipes out to the net. John assures me it can take anything we can throw at it. LETS FIND OUT!!!

We are going to do this in two stages. First stage is at 8:00 pm central time this Wednesday. Everyone loads up a post and gets it ready to go 5 to 10 minutes before that. The post should just need you to click the submit button and it will go under the "Hydrogen Bomb" thread I will post earlier that day. At 8:00 pm central time everyone clicks the submit button and posts just one thread. We will lock down the chat room for a count down and see what happens. If the server crashes we go home for the night. If it doesn't we go on to stage two!

In stage two we wait until 8:30 with another post locked and loaded. At that time you hit submit again but the difference is you hit the back button and do it again several times. This should flood the server with an earth shattering explosion of posts and give it a good test.

If we really blow the thing to pieces it might take a couple days to get it back on line. Inquiring minds want to know. This is legit and not a joke post.

AGD

[Sir. Foxalot]

Sounds very scientific:) this should be interesteing

[personman]

That would be very evil... I like it!
Well, I dont know what I would do without this fourm.. but.. LETS DO IT!

[AirChunck]

Webmasters just love this>

[personman]

can we post reallly big images, and really long worthless speeches? lol

[Cha0tic]

person, i don't think so....


i've been waiting for this pretty badly.....seeing as we couldn't do it the first time.

[AGD]

NO images!!

AGD

[personman]

Alright.. fine... you guys are party poopers. Oh well. Still sounds fun!:D

[Magsrule3]

Sure, I like blowing expensive things up even if there is no explosion :)

[personman]

No explosion that you can see that is, the real explosion is in the people at Deleware.nets' minds

[FooTemps]

YAY!!!

[HoppysMag]

Ya tom tell us if we completely destroy the servers. IE Smoke , fried circuts, fires, explosions all the good things

[FooTemps]

video tape the death of the server!

[ThePatriot]

my god foo....you have nearly 2000 posts, i just noticed, that is plain WRONG

[Micromag5371]

AAAHHHHH forget the servers, if i tried doing that my computer would probably overload and go down for a few days. THERMO-NUCLEAR-PLUTONIUM-FISSION-MELTDOWN on my computer if i try to go for more than 1 post

[brett]

im a dumb monkey and dont listen to other threads that have this but what time is it in michigan for 8 central

[bond1313]

COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL, but do we have to wait till wensday can't we do it earlier, like today.

[Tbone]

Originally posted by ThePatriot
my god foo....you have nearly 2000 posts, i just noticed, that is plain WRONG

Yeah, Foo is a bit insane..:p

[OhMyAMoose]

I cant wait!!!!! Can we win a warp feed? lol

[brett]

yeah i signed up before foo did and he has like 1900 more posts than me

[punk3rs]

hey
what time would 8pm be in
Calgary Alberta, Canada.
i am too lazy to figure it out, someone tell me, so i can take part in the mass distruction!!!!!!!!!
yes, even people in Canada like to destroy things:D :p

[DrEvil]

oh boy.........MAYHEM!!!!!

[rpm07]

Lets rock the server

[MajorDamage]

OLDSCHOOL POST WHORING! lol, I don't think I can make the first attack, but I should be here for faze 2: Operation AO blast! We should tell PBnation about this, they probably wanna try and shut us down for having a post fight on the WDP forum lol

ENDO!

[MajorDamage]

Originally posted by DrEvil
oh boy.........MAYHEM!!!!!
LOL! YES REN! MAYHEM! And <B>I</B> am the keeper of the cheese, and you are the lemon merchant!!

ENDO!

[mattyfatty182]

32 Minutes and counting....

[ThePatriot]

matty...its on wednesday dude, not today

[RSUAVE911]

I think this is exremely stupid what is point of testing it to to such extreme measure?

If it will never happen than why do it?


The logic here is like lets set something on fire to see if these fire extinguishers will help. :(

[mattyfatty182]

Originally posted by ThePatriot
matty...its on wednesday dude, not today

Oh man, i'm a tard.:D

[BTAutoMag]

cool beans im in

[iisp0tii]

yay! i've been wantin to blow somthin up for a couple days now.

[apache]

Tom, if you want an DoS attack on your server, it's easier if you ask your local neighborhood script kiddie to kill the server.

[SGTKennedy]

when i read Foos first post i pictured a veiw coming out of the computer at a kids head and as he read it his head exploded into a mushroom cloud.
Ill be here wed. im here everyday.

[Aliens-8-MyDad]

can I bring some tippman squad buster Paintgrenades? hehe those things necer work anyways... DOWN WITH THE SERVERS ill do it will all three comps in my home.

[-Jôker-]

you doin thse test to the server just makes me wonder what crazy test mags have gone through just for your kicks Tom :p

[vf-xx]

Whoo hoo, I"m coming into work just a touch early to get in on this one. :)

[clockworkmiller]

hey Tom, you want to crash the server? Why didnt you say so.

If you want, my friends and I can crash it in a minute or two. Its just a matter of finding a pressure point and pushing it real hard.

[Bonx0007]

many of us are capable of crushing this system with a single blow but lets try to do it the old fashioned way like Tom asks.:D

[clockworkmiller]

LOL. Only if YOU say so, Mr. Bonx. :D

[Paintballer86]

Post Whores unite... :D

FOO! WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR POST COUNT?!?!?!?! IT'S AT LIKE 39!

[tremis]

You know during phase 2 we can only post every thirty seconds. During the party I was having that happen, a message would come up and tell me that.

Tremis

[50 cal]

Do the forums have flood control activated? I've seen the GlockTalk forum has the same type bulletin board as AO and it has flood control activated.

Just something to think about Tom.:confused:

[snowman]

Sweet! I wish they let me do this at my work. But with over 300 servers, I don't think management would like it that much.

[TheBigRaguPB4L]

seems kind of wierd to TRY and crash the server but hey, whatever floats your boat. my only problem is that i'm going to be at work when you guys get started. i'm going to miss out. nooooooooooo. oh well. life goes on. my only problem is that if we do crash the server, i'm not going to be able to check some stuff out on here. ahhhhh. oh well, anyways, that's it. good luck in project mayhem.

[BTAutoMag]

my god the mods are just nutering the post whores of the forum. first xplosive now footemps. whos next. its all a big conspericy.

[pito189]

Originally posted by BTAutoMag
my god the mods are just nutering the post whores of the forum. first xplosive now footemps. whos next. its all a big conspericy.

Nutering LOL. Foo you have been nutered.

[irbodden]

Why are we doing this?

..its FUN!


I wanna see it go down, everyone go all out!

[ronron2112]

is this 8pm in the eastern part of the US or the central part?? or even the westernpart?

EDIT: i can not read. he did say central. gonna hafta beg my mom to let me stay up after all it is a "school night!" i will def. take part in the 1st one!:D

[personman]

I think he said central..

But the chat room will still be open, right?

[Paintchucker]

The purpose of stress testing a new server is to try and gauge capacity of the server. Obviously, they don't want to underestimate and have to buy new servers every 6 months. Therefore by getting a large portion of the user base to push the server, you can kinda see how many total users the system would hold and gauge a growth pattern. # Users/day doing xxx # of page reads, etc. etc. puts the server at this load pattern of yy%, so given our growth of x # users per day, adding zzz # of page reads, this server will last for xxx months. :)

I don't know if you noticed the big slow down on the server when they announced the design contest winner and had the contests and the chat. That high amount of activity is kinda what they are looking to do again. My Guess is that Buying the new server and bandwidth was done to prevent that type of slowdown. Now they just want to see if they fixed the problem.

AGD: Here is a neat thing that you might want to try during your stress test: Have everyone start at a given time, then do a SEARCH and then search for all their own posts, and then post back in the thread their results. Then have them go back a second time and search for a term like "EMAG", and come back and post the results. This would stress test your database and indexing stuff.

AGD: On the what is the start time: why don't you keep it simple and just use the system clock on this webserver. It displays a current time at the bottom of the HOME page. Then everyone has a place they know they can look and see exactly what time it is. LOL, I guess this assumes that the time is correct, but it would be the standard time in AO Land anyway...

[-Jôker-]

cant wait till 8 o cklock tm

[Smoken]

I'll have to attend this cause I missed the last party:( . And cause blowwing stuff up is always fun. (Does anyone else hear think it's almost "wrong" to start a fire without gasoline?)

[MajorDamage]

TONIGHT EVERYTHING GOES DOWN!
Go and get your riot gear, swing your girlie all around, we'll be dancing on the cynders, as the town(or server...lol) is burning down! SWING HER AROUND! BURN IT ALL DOWN!(lol...this is a song...this whole try and destroy the server thing made me think of it lol :D:D) :D!

ENDO!

[Smoken]

It's at 5:00 PM PST right? (I don't wanna miss it!)