Slow gcc.gnu.org/sourceware.org?

[David Edelsohn]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Jeff Law <law@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 01/27/15 09:20, Steve Ellcey wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 2015-01-27 at 08:02 -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>>
>>> For the past couple days, gcc.gnu.org/sourceware.org is
>>> quite slow for me when accessing git and bugzilla.  Am
>>> I the only one who has  experienced it?
>>
>>
>> I got some timeouts while updating my glibc git repo yesterday.
>> I had never run into that before.
>
> We're having some load problems; looks like we're short of memory from
> occasionally looking at the system over the last week or so.  Mornings, EST
> are definitely a bad time.  Spammers may be making things worse.
>
> I haven't heard back from Frank WRT whether or not we can add more memory to
> the existing system.  That would be a stopgap as the machine is nearing its
> end of life (we typically need to update the system roughly ever 3 years).

If a new system is procured, we need to perform the transition in a
more timely manner so that the new system is not idle for a year like
last time.

I thought that there was more than one system.  Is it possible to
divide the work between multiple systems?

Thanks, David