Re: [Qemu-devel] FYI, cgit is temporarily disabled on qemu.org

[Anthony Liguori]

On 03/28/2011 03:22 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> 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.

Pulls from http:// will also continue to work.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Regards,
>
> Anthony Liguori