On Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:49:27 +0100, Duncan Coutts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 11:58 +0900, Benjamin L.Russell wrote: >> Currently, www.haskell.org is very slow in responding to HTTP >> requests, taking over a minute just to display the main home page. >> This problem is causing difficulties in displaying options for mailing >> lists or in displaying HaskellWiki pages. >> >> Perhaps the server needs to be rebooted? Could somebody responsible >> for maintaining the server please look into this issue? It seems to >> have been persisting for at least about half an hour. Thank you.... > >Should now be sorted out for the moment. Yes; it works fine now. >We have this recurring problem where a single client can hog all the >download slots. Not using a lot of bandwidth, just taking up slots which >eventually means the number of slots hits the maximum and so no new >connections can be made. I'm not sure how other people configure apache >to avoid this problem. It seems like a really cheap DoS attack so other >apache users must get similar problems and so there must be a solution >somewhere. Sadly, I've not seen anything obvious. Thanks; I'll keep your description in mind. If I come across anything that looks helpful, I'll post it on this mailing list. -- Benjamin L. Russell _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
