On Oct 24, 2011, at 11:08 AM, TJ Frazier wrote: > On 10/24/2011 13:42, Dave Fisher wrote: >> >> On Oct 24, 2011, at 10:39 AM, Dave Fisher wrote: >> >>> I reported the current outage with extension and templates. There is a link >>> on the migration page. >>> >> >> These are already back in service, it took less than 20 minutes once OSUOSL >> received the request. >> >> THANKS! >> >> Regards, >> Dave >> > Dave, > > FYI, there is apparently a bug in 3.3 (and earlier?) which is contributing to > beating on that server. It seems that OO.o checks for extension updates every > time it's loaded. with Quickstarter, that's once per re-boot; without it, > every time a "first" document is opened. AFAIK, the Extension Manager was > paying no attention to the schedule setting for product-update checking, as > set on the Options page. > > In 3.4 Beta, I don't see this :-) but I do see a crash. :-( > That suggests that some work was done in this area, which introduced a bug. > At least for me, writing a good issue is hard, and takes time. I will file > one on this eventually. > -- > /tj/
I forwarded your comment to Lance Albertson at OSUOSL - you can reach him through the email I have quoted elsewhere. >> Dave: If this is the case then this should be the most common URI requested >> from that server. Is this something that you could provide? And, if >> so, is it is possible to block or give an canned response. >> >> Just curious, don't spend any time on this, I just want to know if a >> recourse is possible. >> > Lance: > > If this is the URL I'm thinking of we've known about it for years. Its > actually being hosted on our FTP infrastructure because it was getting > so much traffic that it couldn't be hosted on the oooapps/oooapps2 > infrastructure. Lately I've had to also disable apache logs on the vhost > because it was filling up our /var volume so fast and we didn't have > enough space to do that. > > You might verify the URL to me to be sure. If its not and still pointed > at these two machines we may be able to force varnish to keep it cached. > > -- > Lance Albertson > Systems Administrator / Architect > OSU Open Source Lab I am thinking that we should distinguish between websites for general use by humans and web services that are expected by the application. This is going down frequently, is it a self-inflicted DDOS? Do any forks or down-streams also query extensions.s.oo.o and/or templates.s.oo.o? Regards, Dave
