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by pjscott 5606 days ago
A postscript to this, now that the blog is back up and I can do some measurements: the server is Apache 2.2.14, and it's using the default keep-alive timeout value of 15 seconds. Looks like a typical case of Wordpress and Apache with the default configuration suddenly getting slashdotted. More on this from patio11:

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/19/running-apache-on-a-memo...