Re: Bug report missing in the archives

[Bob Proulx]

Dani Moncayo wrote:
> About 24 hours ago, I filed a bug report.  This one:
> https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=75686

Thank you for helping and contributing!

> But I still don't see that report in the archives:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/
>
> Why?  Was there a problem with my report?

First, thank you for bringing this up and talking about it with us.
It gives us a chance to be transparent about problems.

Mailman on lists.gnu.org was stuck due to it being attacked over the
weekend.  A lot of email was not being processed for a while.  Ian
rebooted the server and that broke things free and Mailman started
processing email again.

    https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2025-01/msg01653.html

I am seeing the message in the bug-gnu-emacs archive now.  It must
have been one of the many that was queued while Mailman on lists was
wedged up.

As for the attacks on the GNU and FSF infrastructure, well, that's why
we can't have nice things.  The Internet in the last week has really
ramped up its hostility level.  I am seeing in the logs in the
overnight various problems causing processes to fail to fork and fail
to allocate enough memory.

For most of the time, say 99.44%, debbugs has plenty of memory
resources and open process slots.  But then there will be these times
when the system gets hammered with load spikes to 115 in the overnight
last night and then no amount of resources would be enough.  All of
the systems are similarly getting hit including lists.gnu.org,
www.gnu.org, Savannah, all of them.  Currently a HUGE botnet is
hammering on the git CGIT web UI.

We are trying to tune the system to be resilient to these attacks but
historically the systems have not had process limits.  They are all
getting reviewed as needed and configurations are going through
through a level of hardening.

Bob