On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Denis Roy <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> On 05/24/2013 06:29 AM, Oberhuber, Martin wrote:
>
>  Ø  same here, can't access hudson. IMHO this happens too often. ****
>
> ** **
>
> +1****
>
> ** **
>
> I’m really wondering what is special about the Eclipse.org infrastructure
> that causes these failures
>
>
> After discussions with the owners of CI infrastructures of similar and
> larger scale, the answer is that the CI system itself was not originally
> designed with this type of scalability in mind.  Since our CI system is
> open to the world, it's exposed to the Anonymous User and all the search
> engines out there that constantly fetch content (like build artifacts,
> logs, and such) which use up valuable threads.
>
> As I write this, there was one IP address in France that has been
> reloading the /husdon home page continuously for the last 5 hours, and of
> the last 5000 page requests, they own 2300.  That consumes valuable
> threads,  memory and CPU cycles.  I've blocked their IP.
>

couldn't access to Hudson be limited to registered users having an Eclipse
account ?
Anonymous downloads could still be served from download.eclipse.org and
repo.eclipse.org.

--
Matthias
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