You should plan in advance that you will be distributed
denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.
How do you plan to survive then ?

On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Andy Doan <andy.d...@linaro.org> wrote:
> On 08/28/2014 11:30 PM, John Stultz wrote:
>> On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 2:51 PM, Paul Sokolovsky
>> <paul.sokolov...@linaro.org> wrote:
>
>>> The case we have with git:// is that small number of users can hog
>>> almost all resources of a server. This can happen at release time and
>>> block work of Linaro engineers, something like that happened this time.
>>
>> Do we have a sense of who those users (IPs? which tree they are pulling?) 
>> are?
>
> It appears to have been one IP address for both "attacks". (I use that
> term loosely because they may not have known they were causing this).
>
> Around 5UTC this morning I noticed the same user was causing a small
> resource spike again. They were limiting themselves to about 4-5
> concurrent connections, which the server had no problems with. The 2
> trees being cloned were linux-linaro-tracking.git and your android.git.
>
> This makes me think the use has no ill-intentions, they just want to
> clone a bunch of code at the same time.
>
>> Also I think continuing discussion w/ the kernel.org folks to
>> understand their infrastructure would be good. They really started
>> taking things seriously after their compromise, and it would be good
>> for us to learn from their experience and take things similarly
>> seriously before any such problems arise for us.
>
> +1 on that
>
>
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