Re: [savannah-help-public] (Bug on web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org) 500 Internal Server Error

[Bob Proulx]

joeko wrote:
 Is the website temporarily offline for maintenance work (or backup)?
 What's going on?

This has been a continuing problem.  The vcs server periodically
experiences a high load average greater than 20.  When it is in that
high load average state it is too slow responding to the frontend web
server and times out.  When the backend vcs times out then the
frontend web server emits the message you saw.

Presently there are various conjectures about the root cause of the
problem.  But it hasn't been solved.

Bob

Re: [savannah-help-public] (Bug on web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org) 500 Internal Server Error

[Karl Berry]

For the record, I just asked sysadmin to institute a --bwlimit on the
rsync backup job.  I doubt it will be a panacea, especially given that
it is already nice -19'd, but I still see the backup job regularly in
my top list (/var/log/toplog), so what the heck.

k