Irmen's blog | Snakelets+Frog survives Slashdotting... but with slight hiccups

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Wednesday, 07 Jun 2006

Snakelets+Frog survives Slashdotting... but with slight hiccups

Cliff Wells' blog entry titled "Why the Light Has Gone Out on LAMP" was featured on Slashdot. Cliff uses Frog as his blog tool... So this is the first time -that I know of- that Snakelets+Frog had to withstand a Slashdot effect

Cliff mailed me about it, to tell me two things:

the server survived (only one or two timeouts)
there were some problems with users placing comments

While it is good to know that Snakelets can withstand a moderate slashdotting, the following problems sometimes occured in the commenting system of Frog:

Frog was using the same comment id for multiple comments (ouch!)
User got exception traceback in Frog code, it was no longer able to fetch an id from the request scope

It seems Frog has concurrency and/or timeout issues with placing comments. These are bugs that have to be fixed. So expect a new Frog version sometime soon

update: I have found and fixed a problem in Frog related to the double-id issue. The traceback crash is still there.

• Wrote irmen at 11:46 (edited 2×, last on 13 Jun 2006) | read 23× | Add comment

Comments (2)

hi, any new version of frog now?

• wrote lenx (ip) on 09 Nov 2007, 11:22

good news,I use frog for my blog too.

• wrote zhengggc (ip) on 22 Nov 2007, 07:57

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