There's some good info in here. We ran a flash hotel sale a while back. Only lasted for 60 seconds but with about 800 booking req/second. Discovered many of the

There's some good info in here. We ran a flash hotel sale a while back. Only lasted for 60 seconds but with about 800 booking req/second. Discovered many of the same issues but I never quite got iptables stable (hash table flooding, then other issues) so I ended up getting it to ignore some of the traffic. Will try out the solutions in here next time to see how it goes.