posted on December 9, 2000 11:55:55 AM
Something is happening and I don't think it's just the last-minute Christmas listing rush.
I listed an item a couple hours ago (about 9:30 am PST) and it was 5226538xx (I'd rather not point you directly at it). The item I just listed (about 11:45 am PST) is -- get this -- 12014909xx. Look at that carefully. That's a difference of about 678 MILLION auctions! Or, more posted in a couple of hours than have been posted since AuctionWeb became eBay!
Huge Dutch auctions wouldn't account for it; a Dutch auction only gets one auction number.
I haven't seen any service degradation on eBay this morning, as there would surely be had this been actual user activity. I don't know about you, but I'm thinking database glitch.
posted on December 9, 2000 12:07:45 PM
The different-category part could be true. My sterling listings are still in the 522xxxxxx
series; the 10 digit ones were porcelain. I wonder why they did this? It's gonna confuse the heck out of me, as I have always assumed auction numbers were sequential.
posted on December 9, 2000 12:57:07 PM
The categories are being split into separate databases on separate servers that will be independant of each other. The new servers assign lot numbers from a different starting number. The reason for the 500,000 auction gap is so that the first server doesn't run into the same lot numbers as being assigned by the second server and thus corrupting both databases. As the first server approaches the starting number of the second, you will see auction lot numbers jump again to avoid the second batch.
posted on December 9, 2000 12:57:08 PM
They've put different categories on different servers, to improve site stability. That must be why they are using different numbers for different categories.
posted on December 9, 2000 01:02:00 PM
If under 6 million auctions make the servers sick and unpredictable, 678 MILLION auctions would kill Ebay's servers for good!
posted on December 9, 2000 01:07:59 PM
I personally listed about 3.2 million items this morning (mostly junk from my garage), but 678 million? That would've taken me all day to list.
"My possessions are causing me suspicion." - Neil Finn
posted on December 9, 2000 02:37:26 PM
Happened to me about 10 days ago, and I also started a thread asking what happened. It is the category split. 10 of my software auctions were in the 1.2 billions and the rest of my stuff was in the 500 millions. Kind of screws up the sorting in my eBud, but oh well.
