Just a thought. Are the requests to gemcutter using HTTP? Is the system using ETags / If-Mod-since?
Seems there could be a way to use a forward proxy to gemcutter. It would help out: 1) less bandwidth for both gemcutter and heroku 2) faster image build times on heroku 3) less load on the gemcutter servers 4) maybe less load on the heroku servers since Another option would be to have a local repository of gems. I remember doing this with rpms/gentoo ports. It was a bit of a pain but as the number of machines increased, it really sped things up. (Especially when installing the software) --Keenan On Nov 2, 2009, at 11:51 AM, Neil Middleton wrote: > > I had this same problem last week - in the end, and on about the tenth > push it finally managed to make it through which was a real pita. > > Something needs to be there to ensure deployments aren't > killed....whatever that might be. > > /Neil > > On 2 Nov 2009, at 16:46, markdevilliers wrote: > >> >> It did work for me a couple of hours later. It had also failed >> several >> times before I posted. >> >> I think the issue is consistency - random gems (not always redcloth) >> were failing to install with the error message - "http:// >> gemcutter.org/ does not appear to be a repository" - which in the >> example above doesn't make sense as it was a repository moments >> before. >> >> I'll probably accept that maybe gemcutter is a bit overloaded a >> certain times and timing out delivering the initial 302 but maybe on >> the heroku side there needs to be a "try a few times" on push as >> failing at random stages is a bit annoying. >> >> Anyway I've just pushed again and all is good again, >> >> Thanks for looking into it for me - Mark >> >>> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
