[CompInaBox-discuss] Interesting new twist to CIB....

[Eric D N. <nie...@MI...>]

The five open competitions (with four have near simultaneous deadlines) finally
caused me to go over my bandwidth quotas.  Nothing too bad and I don't expect
similar concentrated surges to occur too often so I'm not worried.  However it
was very enlightening to look into the bandwidth distribution.

Basically something like 90% of the bandwidth is between the database server and
the web server; web/email traffic is a small percentage.

As an immediate stop-gap measure to gain some protection from further overages
this month I've throttled back the stats rebuild to only check for changes
every three minutes instead of every minute.

However I don't know at this time what time of use cases contribute to the
intra-server bandwidth:

Comp/Team Admin operations tend to be rather "heavy" but are less common and
accomplish more per page.

Stats Rebuild are extremely data intensive and are load dependent in frequency

Regular SD pages are rather light, but very frequent

Result Tracker is moderate, but not in heavy use yet.

Does anyone have any thoughts on how I can attempt to better measure/quantify
the bandwidth breakdown to figure out where we should try to optimize, if
anywhere?

Eric