Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-git web viewer?

[Anthony Liguori]

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