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Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 08:21:12 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-git web viewer?
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Cc: Rob Landley <rlandley@parallels.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On 03/29/2011 06:58 AM, Frédéric Grelot wrote:
> See above mail, sent by Anthony yesterday :

My plan is to upgrade cgit later today FWIW.  If anyone has experience 
with other git front ends, I'd appreciate hearing about it.  Since 
qemu.org has pretty high traffic, I wanted something that cached 
aggressively.

Other than this current issue, I've had pretty good experiences with 
cgit so far.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

>
>> We've been having problems on qemu.org all day.  Initially, it was
>> due
>> to a combination of a small DoS attack (not uncommon unfortunately).
>>
>> Later, the issue was observed when a crawler that was ignoring
>> robots.txt started indexing git.qemu.org.  We use cgit because of the
>> fact that it does aggressive caching but it also seems to frequently
>> SEGV leaving stale lock files.  This is causing all pages to be
>> dynamically generated which is an extremely slow path with cgit.
>>
>> For now, I've disabled cgit until I can try a newer version.  This
>> only
>> affects the web interface.  Pulling and pushing via the git:// or
>> ssh://
>> will continue to work.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Anthony Liguori
>