From: bzs@world.std.com (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Public Election Server Stats -- An Internet Application
Summary: execution
Keywords: florida,stone,don...
Date: 5 Nov 92 05:50:47 GMT
Followup-To: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA

World.std.com (The World) in conjunction with Adam Gaffin and the
Middlesex News ran a free, public election server. Starting about 8PM
on the night of the election major results were updated every twenty
minutes or so.

These results were accessible to anyone on the internet by simply
typing:

		finger election@world.std.com

which reflected back a screenful or two of info.

This kept our system (a Sun4/280 with 80MB, not a small system) very
busy. In fact, early in the day the system load jumped to over 200
(anything much over 20 would be considered quite overloaded.) In
response we made some drastic modifications to the finger daemon
software which made things only slightly miserable but we muddled
through.



Here are some stats from the experience:



* Total queries served over approximately 36 hours:

			49,419

* Domains served with counts per domain:

	Domain	Count		Type

	edu     28001		educational
	com     12000		commercial
	uk      2444		United Kingdom
	se      897		Sweden
	gov     848		Government
	ca      808		Canada
	org     770		Unspecified Organization (usually non-profit)
	au      769		Australia
	il      457		Israel
	net     434		Network Service Org
	nz      226		New Zealand
	mil     155		Military
	de      140		Germany
	fi      105		Finland
	no      75		Norway
	jp      73		Japan
	fr      69		France
	kr      64		Korea
	dk      59		Denmark
	sg      58		Singapore
	us      47		United States (other than many edu, com, etc)
	nl      47		Netherlands (Holland)
	ch      34		Switzerland
	pt      29		Portugal
	at      27		Austria
	mx      24		Mexico
	ee      17		Estonia
	in      16		India
	hk      10		Hong Kong
	cl      10		Chile
	pl      8		Poland
	it      8		Italy
	hu      5		Hungary
	is      2		Iceland
	za      1		Republic of South Africa
	ve      1		Venezuela
	be      1		Belgium

(counts don't add up because hosts who's numeric address could not be
resolved were elided from this report but not the total count.)

* Requests per hour, Nov 3, midnight thru Nov 4, noon:

	Hour	Count

	00       54
	01       47
	02       37
	03       56
	04       34
	05       36
	06       46
	07       82
	08       189
	09       470
	10       644
	11       202
	12       40
	13       85
	14       466
	15       1331
	16       1825
	17       2145
	18       2256
	19       4763
	20       6044
	21       6341
	22       5040
	23       3503
	00       2232
	01       1341
	02       795
	03       596
	04       503
	05       667
	06       730
	07       865
	08       1151
	09       1330
	10       1142
	11       1036
	12       220

(don't ask me why so many people queried for results before the
election even began, perhaps they have more faith in computers than is
reasonably healthy.)


* Sample (last) report:


MIDDLESEX NEWS ELECTION NETWORK
 
3:50 a.m. Final results of the night. Good night/morning,
all!
 
For complete results and in-depth news and analysis of
the results, pick up Wednesday's Middlesex News, on sale
throughout MetroWest.
 
``I accept tonight the responsibility you have given to me, 
to be the leader of this, the greatest country in human 
history,'' Clinton said. ``This is a remarkable coalition 
for change. I ask you to keep that commitment as we move 
>from the election to governing.''
 
Bush promised a smooth transition of power and wished 
Clinton well in the White House. ``It's over,'' he whispered 
to his wife Barbara.
 
With 88 percent of the nation's precincts reporting.
 
 Clinton 38,860,586 - 43 percent
 Has won 29 states and the District of Columbia with 349 ev.
 Leads in 3 states with 16 electoral votes
 
 Bush 34,349,041 - 38 percent
 Has won 15 states with 132 electoral votes
 Leads in 3 states with 41 electoral votes
 
 Perot 16,835,474 - 19 percent
 Has won 0 state with 0 electoral votes
 Leads in 0 state with 0 electoral votes   
 
MASSACHUSETTS
 
1,777 of 2,138 precincts - 83 percent
 
 George Bush, GOP (i) 663,212 - 29 percent
 x-Bill Clinton, Dem 1,084,350 - 48 percent
 H.Ross Perot, Ind 514,454 - 23 percent
 
 
Question 1 Tobacco Tax 
 
 747 of 2,138 precincts - 35 percent
 
 x-Yes, 589,725 - 55 percent
 No, 480,736 - 45 percent
 
Question 2 Corporate Taxes 
 
749 of 2,138 precincts - 35 percent
 
 x-Yes, 555,940 - 55 percent
 No, 455,437 - 45 percent
 
Question 3 Recycling 
 
748 of 2,138 precincts - 35 percent
 
 Yes, 432,381 - 40 percent
 x-No, 638,730 - 60 percent
 
Question 4 Oil & Hazards Tax 
 
751 of 2,138 precincts - 35 percent
 
 Yes, 419,733 - 40 percent
 x-No, 621,870 - 60 percent
 
U.S. House District 2 
 
192 of 212 precincts - 91 percent
 
 x-Richard E. Neal, Dem (i) 117,009 - 63 percent
 Anthony W. Ravosa Jr., GOP 68,250 - 37 percent
 
U.S. House District 3 
 
155 of 205 precincts - 76 percent
 
 Joseph D. Early, Dem (i) 87,925 - 45 percent
 x-Peter I. Blute, GOP 107,543 - 55 percent
 
U.S. House District 4 
 
142 of 200 precincts - 71 percent
 
 x-Barney Frank, Dem (i) 143,996 - 72 percent
 Edward J. McCormick III, GOP 54,810 - 28 percent
 
U.S. House District 5 
 
144 of 196 precincts - 73 percent
 
 Paul W. Cronin, GOP 77,649 - 45 percent
 x-Martin T. Meehan, Dem 93,404 - 55 percent
 
U.S. House District 7 
 
198 of 223 precincts - 89 percent
 
 x-Edward J. Markey, Dem (i) 160,251 - 71 percent
 Stephen A. Sohn, GOP 66,567 - 29 percent
 
U.S. House District 8 
 
141 of 233 precincts - 61 percent
 
 x-Joseph P. Kennedy, Dem (i) 76,948 - 83 percent
 Alice Harriett Nakash, Unr 15,823 - 17 percent
 
 
 
Midlsx,Norflk&Worcstr State Senate
 
 David P. Magnani, Dem 36,034
 Thomas P. Tierney, GOP 22,144 
 
1st Suffolk & Norfolk 
 
16 of 58 precincts - 28 percent
 
 Christopher M. Lane, GOP (i) 12,495 - 53 percent
 Marian Walsh, Dem 11,138 - 47 percent
 
Middlesex & Worcester state senate 
 
16 of 49 precincts - 33 percent
 
 Robert A. Durand, Dem (i) 14,560 - 54 percent
 William M. Monnie, GOP 12,633 - 46 percent
 
Norfolk,Bristol & Middlesex state senate
 
33 of 47 precincts - 70 percent
 
 David H. Locke, GOP (i) 20,625 - 40 percent
 Cheryl A. Jacques, Dem 31,234 - 60 percent
 
1st Worcester & Middlesex State Senate
 Hopkinton, Hopedale, Southboro, Upton reporting
 
 Matthew John Amorello, GOP (i) 9984
 Guy W. Glodis, Dem 6788 
 
11th Worcester
Northboro, Shrewsbury reporting
 
 Gauch, GOP 9,938
 Whitney, Dem 9,166
 
Middlesex & Worcester State Senate 
 
 Robert A. Durand, Dem (i) 4379
 William M. Monnie, GOP 250 
 
 
 4th Middlesex state rep
 all precincts reporting
 
 Valianti, Dem (i), 9,318
 Carlman, GOP 6179
 
 5th Middlesex 
 All precincts reporting
 Douglas W. Stoddart, GOP (i) 11,091
 Megan H. Christopher, Dem 7764
 
 
6th Middlesex 
All precincts reporting
 
 Gray, Dem (i) 10,729
 Havel, GOP 7,075
 
 7th Middlesex State Rep
 All precincts reporting
 
 Stefanini, Dem 9,981
 Stewart, GOP 5,778
 
8th Middlesex 
 
9 of 12 precincts - 75 percent
 
 Barbara Gardner, Dem (i) 10,982 - 67 percent
 David W. Henderson, GOP 5,459 - 33 percent
 
9th Middlesex 
 
1 of 11 precincts - 9 percent
 
 David F. Gately, Unr (i) 778 - 55 percent
 Kathleen B. McMenimen, Dem 632 - 45 percent
 
 13th Middlesex State Rep
 Sudbury, Wayland reporting
 
 Hasty Evans (i), GOP, 10,238
 Vicki Hammel, Dem 5,502
 
 9th Worcester State Rep.
 All precincts reporting
 
 Platt, Dem, 8,733
 Peterson, GOP 8,153
 Delle, I, 3,017
 
 10th Norfolk State Rep.
 All precincts reporting
 
 Ranieri, Dem, 15,496
 Sawyer, IVP, 5,009
 
 14th Norfolk State Rep.
 All precincts reporting
 
 Haas, Dem, 8515 
 Madden, GOP, 10,142 
 
-- 
        -Barry Shein

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