On Aug 15, 2012, at 8:50 AM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 10:32 AM, Oliver-Rainer Wittmann > <orwittm...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> >> On 15.08.2012 16:00, Dave Fisher wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Apologies to the Apache Infra team, the load caused by implementing >>> INFRA-5112 caused trouble. >>> >>> The changes to update*.services.openoffice.org to point to >>> www.openoffice.org >>> was reverted. >>> >>> This was due to added load on the Apache Infrastructure. >>> >>> Before we can proceed with INFRA-5112 and INFRA-5144 we absolutely must >>> have >>> some estimates about the volume of requests that will be received. >>> >> >> When I saw the problems on www.openoffice.org in the morning I already >> suggested that this might be related to the established redirects. I >> reported my assumption at #asfinfra in the morning. >> If I remembering it correct, Kay S. and Joe S. already observed something >> like this earlier this year. >> >> Unfortunately, I can not provide any volume. >> In the past more than 100 million download of OpenOffice.org package had >> been counted by the OpenOffice.org community. I do not know how much OOo >> installation are really active and how the distribution between the >> different versions are. >> >> What I know is the following: >> (1) update38.services.openoffice.org is used by OOo 3.4 Beta and released >> AOO 3.4 - a redirect for it has been established at 2012-05-21 and the >> traffic can be handled. >> (2) update36.services.openoffice.org is used by OOo 3.3 - a redirect for it >> has been established at 2012-06-04 and the traffic can be handled. >> (3) update35|34.services.openoffice.org is used by OOo 3.2.1 and OOo 3.2 - >> redirects for then have been established at 2012-07-12 and the traffic can >> be handled. >> (4) update33.services.openoffice.org is _not_ used - a redirect is _not_ >> necessary. Does occur any traffic on this URL? >> (5) update32.services.openoffice.org is used by OOo 3.1.1 and OOo 3.1 - a >> redirect has been requested and was established today. Due to the server >> load it has been reverted. Is the traffic data available? >> (6) update31.services.openoffice.org is _not_ used - a redirect is _not_ >> necessary. Does occur any traffic on this URL? >> (7) update30.services.openoffice.org is used by OOo 3.0.1 and OOo 3.0. Does >> occur any traffic on this URL? >> (8) update.services.openoffice.org seems to be used by OOo 2.x version (at >> least my test installation of OOo 2.2 uses it). Is the traffic data >> available? When I remember it correct Kay S. and Joe S. observed the above >> mentioned problems earlier this year with this URL. >> >> Is it possible that somebody from the Apache Infrastructure can provide a >> view on which URL the traffic load was soo high that the servers got in >> trouble? >> > > That would be good to know. Once we know we could verify behavior > with a change to a local hosts file. One scenario that could > conceivably cause a problem would be if some old version of OOo > behaved badly when it gets a 404 error, such as getting into a retry > loop. We know this did not happen for OOo 3.3.0, 3.2.1 or 3.2.0. > But it is worth confirming with earlier versions, if the HTTP logs > suggest this is happening.
We'll have access to full logs tonight / tomorrow. Regards, Dave > > -Rob > >> Best regards, Oliver.
