NG traffic overloadad?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Steven Schveighoffer" <schveiguy at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:36:22 -0400, Jesse Phillips
> <jessekphillips+D at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Is it just me or have others not been able to access the NG. Most 
>> recently it had a message say the load was 22.24. If it is getting too 
>> much traffic, that is pretty cool, but might not be good to continue.
>
> I'm getting the following error from Opera regularly:
>
> 400 loadav [innwatch:hiload] 2912 gt 2000
>
> Seems like it has something to do with the load.  I wonder if it's a DOS
> going on...
>

Ever since around the time TDPL came out I've had occasional times when I'll 
get that. Then it always comes back after not too long. Mildy annoying 
sometimes, but I figure I probably spend too much time here anyway ;)

Not saying it is or isn't because of TDPL, but that was around when D got a 
surge of increased interest ('course, that surge of interest probably had a 
lot to do with TDPL, though). Of course, you could be right about the DOS, 
too - maybe our resident alias-hopping troll's been doing more than just 
writing occasional posts?