On 5/5/25 04:25, Bob Proulx wrote: [...]
It might appear to be down but nothing about the system is broken as such. It's configured and working as it has previously been. The problem is that the system has been overwhelmed. It's up. It is processing requests as fast as it can do so. But it is overhwelmed causing things to be so overworked that they timeout before they complete. Which has the effect of bringing it down. But it does also work when the bots randomly give some rest to the system.
I don't know much about how bots behave but AFAICT they seem to have started attacking viewvc at least a month ago, practically 24/7. In case it might help, I want to report that apart from the 502/504 errors, I also sometimes get: An error occurred while reading CGI reply (no response received) Also, when following a link to a diff page, sometimes the usual URL redirects to a different one which includes an extra www dir. For example, this URL: http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/server/standards/translations/po-how-to.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.11&r2=1.12 Sometimes returns the 502/504 error, sometimes the CGI error, and sometimes it redirects to: https://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/www/www/server/standards/ translations/po-how-to.html?r1=1.11&r2=1.12 Note the extra www dir. [...] -- Dora Scilipoti gnu.org/education stallmansupport.org -- Disinformation succeeds because so many people care deeply about injustice but do not take the time to check the facts.
