On 2010-04-22, at 3:01 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: >> In general python.org seems flaky today. Sometimes I could not reach the site >> at all, now a ping to svn.python.org gives 30% packet loss. > > Yes. See > > http://www.python.org/munin/localdomain/localhost.localdomain-if_eth0.html > > Somebody was consuming all bandwidth, although we couldn't quite figure > out who (whenever I was looking, the traffic looked genuine). It turned > out that Sridhar himself contributed a good chunk of this traffic.
Background in private emails to Martin (below): On 2010-04-22, at 5:42 PM, Sridhar Ratnakumar wrote: > > On 2010-04-22, at 2:13 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > >>> [snip ... ip address] >>> >>> I must note that we do a nightly build of ActivePython using Python >>> mercurial repositories for trunk, release26-maint and release31-maint >>> (3 URLs) on 5 of our build machines. So one nightly build will make >>> 3x5=15 "hg clone" requests per day to code.python.org. This week, I >>> have been debugging the nightly build code (run by hudson); so that >>> number is likely higher this week. >> >> [snip ... possibly security-confidential part] >> >> Can you please find a way not to clone the complete repository every >> time? IIUC, it should be possible to update a clone, rather than >> refetching it from scratch. > > Ok, I setup a cron job to maintain an internal mirror of the above mentioned > repositories in code.python.org. We'll do a "hg pull -u" (equivalent to "svn > up") every hour; no clones. Hopefully, that should reduce the amount of > requests from our side. Let me know if in future this issue repeats. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
