On 8/1/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Fixed, I think. The problem was actually a screen-scraper searching the > > wiki (a third of the last 100k hits on the wiki were from the same host, > > requesting every possible link on every possible page.) Someone with > > more wiki knowledge may want to make sure no weird pages were made. (The > > offending host was somewhere in dynamic.dsl.as9105.com > > <http://dynamic.dsl.as9105.com>; I have the actual address but don't > > want to mail it around.) > > Strange. According to the logs, it also happened (simultaneously, > but independently?) that pypi.fcgi would always terminate > immediately. This happened before, and I could never figure out > why, so I added a mechanism to restart Apache. This time, the > restart happened, and pypi.fcgi would again stop right away, > to be restarted again, and so on. > > If this is indeed related to the load on MoinMoin, this is quite > puzzling: they are separate processes, and separate virtual hosts. > So they shouldn't "see" each other.
The load is machine load, which is of course shared across all processes. It was about 15, with a slow response to match. Nullrouting that particular IP address fixed the problem instantly, so I'm pretty sure that was it. -- Thomas Wouters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi! I'm a .signature virus! copy me into your .signature file to help me spread!
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