Re: [savannah-help-public] Webpage with information on Savannah status?

[Joris van der Hoeven]

Hi Bob,

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 04:33:00PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
> > These last days, I have been experiencing considerable slowdowns
> > when using SVN on Savannah.  Is there some reason for that?
> 
> Could you keep track of the time of day when you have experienced
> problems?  Also if you were dealing only with subversion or if you
> were also dealing with a web page interface to subversion.  (The web
> page interface uses a frontend machine that interfaces to the backend
> vcs machine.)

I actually both use the command line SVN and the webservice;
the slowdown was experienced for both services.

> The subversion backend VM instance is named "vcs" and has a load
> problem that happens in the middle of the night local -0500 timezone
> time.  It sometimes hits a load of 30 or so.  During that time it just
> doesn't respond very fast.  The middle of the night part has gotten in
> the way of anyone having been able to debug it.  Several of us have
> looked at the problem but mostly we are not awake when the problem is
> occurring.  It has been discussed on the mailing list.

The problems indeed occurred three consecutive days
at the end of the morning in France (about 11h or 12h),
if my memory is correct.

I am sorry not to be an expert on debugging this kind of services,
otherwise I would have proposed my help.  In any case, if this helps,
I can give you feedback if I again experience significant slowdowns and
keep more careful track of the exact time when they occur.

> > It might be nice to add a link in the margin of the website to
> > some page with information on possible network problems,
> > e.g. under the Site Help header.  Maybe such a page already exists,
> > but I could not easily find it.
> 
> Just recently a new status notification page was announced.  I will
> note that there isn't much activity there.  It was announced two
> months ago and there have been no postings there yet.
> 
>   https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/new-fsfstatus-notification-account

I still think that a link on the savannah main page would be nice.
Or at least an item in the 'Get Support' list.

Best wishes, --Joris