Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Is something wrong with Savannah's Git server?

[Bob Proulx]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> It is extremely unresponsive lately.  I type "git pull" and wait for
> several minutes(!) with nothing happening.
> 
> Help!

I believe that one of the projects hosted must have announced a new
git release and that synchronice a lot of people trying to clone at
the same time.  It seemed as if everyone in the world was trying to
clone all at once.  There was almost 8G of system memory consumed
solely by many running git processes.  It just couldn't keep up.

Eventually I couldn't find an alternative to killing all of the git
processes and waiting a bit before restarting the server.  Hopefully
as people start cloning again they won't all do it at once.  A little
time skew goes a long way.

Having done that at around 06:20 UTC (11:20pm US/Mountain) that seemed
to break the problem and things appear to be working normally again
since then.  I have once again reduced the number of parallel git
servers, now down from 25 to 15.

Bob