Re: Linux 2.6.19-rc2

H. Peter Anvin
2006-10-13T17:55:44Z

Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> On Friday 13 October 2006 17:49, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>> Ok, it's a week since -rc1, so -rc2 is out there.
>
> Does anybody know what's up with the git server? Hopefully it's just my
> connection...
>
> [alistair] 18:38 [~/linux-git] git pull
> fatal: unexpected EOF
> Fetch failure:
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
>

No, this is the result of a serious problem with gitweb.

We run gitweb behind a cache (otherwise it would be unacceptably
expensive), but when httpd starts timing out on gitweb, it spawns gitweb
over and over and over again, and the load on the machine skyrockets,
throttling other services.

This happens every time we're on one server instead of two (one server
is down right now for network rewiring.)

I think for now I'm just going to put a loadavg cap on running gitweb...

-hpa