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11492 accounts, many of them inactive of course. There are more users than that, because many users lurk for a while before creating accounts. We now get arou

by pg 17y ago

11492 accounts, many of them inactive of course. There are more users than that, because many users lurk for a while before creating accounts. We now get around 45k unique visitors on weekdays.

dzlobin 17y ago
awesome, out of curiosity, what kind of server is HN running on? edit: guy below me who maxed out the thread, server not language
- deleted 17y ago
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- idoh 17y ago
  It's a server written in arc.
- jaydub 17y ago
  as of ~a year ago: "3.0 GHz Core whatever, 12 GB RAM, 64-bit FreeBSD 7.1" see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=516118 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=516118
  - pg 17y ago
    It's still that one. We were starting to spend too much time gcing once everything got lazily loaded, but a few days ago I started throwing stuff out of memory and now it looks like we've got performance back into the tolerable range. http://hnstatus.net/ http://hnstatus.net/
    - rms 17y ago
      One day, I will be able to load my saved items...
      - Herring 17y ago
        Wow, no kidding. And I'm certain items are missing from the beginning of the list. I know they're still saved somewhere, because I can't upmod those articles.