Why is subversions.gnu.org locked for long time?

Why is subversions.gnu.org locked for long time?

[Kaoru Fukui]

Hi!

Please check subversions.gnu.org
it's locked for long time.
Transmit is very very slow.

cvs server: Updating gcc-3.3/gcc/config/cris
cvs server: Updating gcc-3.3/gcc/config/d30v
cvs server: [23:20:40] waiting for anoncvs's lock in /cvsroot/gcc/gcc/gcc/config/d30v
cvs server: [23:21:27] waiting for anoncvs's lock in /cvsroot/gcc/gcc/gcc/config/d30v
cvs server: [23:21:57] waiting for anoncvs's lock in /cvsroot/gcc/gcc/gcc/config/d30v
cvs server: [23:22:27] waiting for anoncvs's lock in /cvsroot/gcc/gcc/gcc/config/d30v
cvs server: [23:22:57] waiting for anoncvs's lock in /cvsroot/gcc/gcc/gcc/config/d30v
cvs server: [23:23:27] waiting for anoncvs's lock in /cvsroot/gcc/gcc/gcc/config/d30v
cvs server: [23:23:57] waiting for anoncvs's lock in /cvsroot/gcc/gcc/gcc/config/d30v

Kaoru

Re: Why is subversions.gnu.org locked for long time?

[Andrew Walrond]

subversions.gnu.org just seems to be completely down now. Is anyone 
looking into this?

Re: Why is subversions.gnu.org locked for long time?

[Raja R Harinath]

Hi,

Andrew Walrond <andrew@walrond.org> writes:

> subversions.gnu.org just seems to be completely down now. Is anyone
> looking into this?

IIRC, from the announcements page of subversions a couple of days ago:
A P2P client (mldonkey), hosted on subversions, has it's default
configuration pointing to subversion to get the list of servers.  The
client appears to (try to) download that file quite often, and since
there were thousands of downloads of the client itself, this is
causing an inadvertant DDoS on subversions.

I guess the last ditch effort to force people to upgrade their
mldonkey clients may have been to shut down subversions.

- Hari
-- 
Raja R Harinath ------------------------------ harinath@cs.umn.edu