Archive for May, 2007
Europa: 30 days and counting
I’ve been quite busy lately with various things that I’m not seeing time go by. Quick glances at the server monitors shows heavy CVS activity, and Bugzilla is taking a heavier beating than usual. That smells like an … an upcoming… RELEASE. Or worse, 20 releases.
Unlike last year’s Callisto, which (only) included 10 projects, [...]
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DoS attacks from Google? Look again
Lately an interesting type of DoS (denial of service) attack has been hitting the various Eclipse sites, and although I’m not sure if it’s widespread or just an Eclipse thing, it could affect Google as well.
Here’s what happens: load on the servers and databases slowly increases as Apache serves the home page of a [...]
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Bugzilla: avoiding stale searches
We have a master-slave MySQL replication setup here at Eclipse for redundancy, and Bugzilla is configured to use the slave DB for those SELECTs that are appropriate for the slave to handle. This helps performance greatly, especially when small queries need to wait for tables locked by large queries. Our Bugzilla database isn’t small, and [...]
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