On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 1:13 PM, Sam Ruby <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 12:50 PM, sebb <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 4 June 2016 at 17:33, Sam Ruby <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> But as we found out, the performance of the proxy is inadequate for
>> use with Whimsy.
>
> I'm not convinced that it was the proxy's fault.  I'm more inclined to
> blame the subnetwork on which whimsy-vm2 was placed.  That subnetwork
> hosts machines that use high internal bandwidth doing things like
> backups.  Presumably the backup commands deal with things like
> transient network errors, but higher level applications (e.g., svn,
> ldap, httpd) don't appear to do so quite as well.
>
> What that meant is that we would see dropped packets, which would
> manifest itself as things like timeouts and errors reported by the
> proxy server.
>
> I'm hopeful that the new server won't see any of these problems, at
> least not with the frequency that we have been seeing those issues.
>
> Time will tell.

So far, I've only seen svn errors.  Note that the svn servers are
located on the same network that whimsy-vm2 is.

No LDAP errors.  Obviously no proxy errors (as there is no proxy), but
more than that: no Apache httpd errors beyond application errors (such
as the regression in the roster tool that I recently fixed).

- Sam Ruby

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