Perhaps if haskell.org has so many moving parts, those moving parts could
be distributed to different hosts to determine whether it's the software at
fault.


On 17 November 2013 16:36, Paul Heinlein <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Sun, 17 Nov 2013, Austin Seipp wrote:
>
> > The problem was not DDoS, I think. Our speculation is that it might
> > have been a software/hardware issue possibly (kernel panic, a total
> > OOM and grinding to a halt is also possible I suppose.)
>
> My experience is that there are so many moving parts in the
> haskell.org web environment that testing for failure points is
> difficult. That said...
>
> My suspicion has been that there are a couple web-launched operations
> that consume massive memory (and perhaps i/o) resources, often enough
> to bring even well-behaved hardware like abbot to its knees.
>
> Speaking of abbot, please keep me in the loop concerning its future.
> There are some Galois-specific configuration bits I'll want to remove
> or replace prior to, say, a trip down to the Open Source Lab in
> Corvallis.
>
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