Edscott Wilson wrote: > http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/www/server/standards/boilerplate.html?root=www&content-type=text%2Fplain
Try it again. It is available now. > Internal Server Error > > The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was > unable to complete your request. This is a known problem. One that has been going on relatively long term. The problem is that the Savannah servers are virtual machines running on a shared host. They are affected by other VMs also running on the same shared host. When these other systems consume resources it also affects the Savannah servers. In particular the I/O bandwidth seems to be the culprit. When that happens processes cannot complete and eventually time out. The detail on this is that the frontend is talking to your browser. The httpd server is talking to the version control backend server. The backend server needs to perform I/O but can't. It timed out and failed to respond. This caused the frontend server to give you the above report. This is a known problem but only the FSF can do anything about it. Their is an open trouble ticket on the problem. > Please contact the server administrator, savannah-hackers@gnu.org and > inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might > have done that may have caused the error. Thank you for reporting this problem. It is useful to have additional reports to characterize the issue. I believe I also saw this load spike as it passed by the system. Nothing was happening on the Savannah systems itself but something was happening on other VMs running on the same hardware and accessing the same underlying file system volume groups. If this happens again the only advice I can give is to wait a few minutes (ten or fifteen) and then try again. By then the background load spike should have passed and the resources will become available again. Bob
