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H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
> Yes, it does matter, because it drives the load up further.  If you 
> start having this going on in overlapping instances, then you're soon on 
> the downhill slope of a cascading failure.
Add some other locking mechanism.

> And we have already experimented with it.  It unfortunately doesn't help 
> much, it only makes matters worse.
The gitweb overview page has less than one hit per minute?  Otherwise
this should help.