Re: LilyPond.org down?

[Phil Holmes]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Kastrup" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Monday, August 05, 2013 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: LilyPond.org down?


> Jan Nieuwenhuizen <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > David Kastrup writes:
> >
> > > It would seem like the NSA can't keep up with filtering all our
> > > traffic.  At least I see
> > >
> > >     Site currently down due to high traffic
> > >
> > > And subpages like www.lilypond.org/gub/ are 404.
> >
> > Apparently we are creating the high traffic ourselves.
> >
> >    Jullie blazen momenteel de webserver op, omdat er aldoor grote
> >    bestanden gedownload worden die ook aldoor gezipped worden. Daardoor
> >    loopt de tmp vol. Kunnen jullie dat wijzigen?
> >
> >    You are blowing up the webserver, by many large files dowloads
> >    that are also getting zipped.  This fills up /tmp.  Please fix.
> >
> > Did anything major change, recently?  Also, the webmask of files
> > in website/ is still wrong (I asked more than once about this);
> > files are not lilypond-group writable.

I'm not aware of any changes being made, unless it's the regularity of the 
upgrades and people downloading the PDFs more often.

As to the mask - if you give me instructions of what to do, I can do it.

> It would be interesting to see what kind of files are filling up /tmp.
> I can't think of significantly offered zipped files, so I'd guess that
> some crawler just tries them for bandwidth's sake and is happy to find
> them workable.  Maybe we should disable compression?
>
> --
> David Kastrup


As it stands right now, /tmp is empty.

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Phil Holmes