Is git://sourceware.org/git/binutils.git down?

[Jim Meyering]

H.J. Lu wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 8:25 AM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Hi -
>>>
>>> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 07:51:47AM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>>> Something is wrong.  binutils git mirror hasn't been updated
>>>> for several hours and there were 5 commits missing in
>>>> git mirror.
>>>
>>> The way these mirrors are updated is by a rather CPU-expensive set of
>>> scripts run by Jim Meyering.  I'm not too surprised if they sometimes
>>> fall behind.
>>>
>>
>> 6 hours behind is very strange.
>>
>
> Both gdb and binutils git mirrors are out of date.  Can someone
> please take a look?

There was one zombie mirror-sw process for each of those two
repositories, and due to the new locking mechanism[*], no other job
would proceed.  I've just killed all of the dependent processes
and that let the zombies die for real, so now things seem to
be moving again.

[*] This is the locking mechanism that Frank requested to
keep two update processes (for the same repo) from overlapping,
which was harmless, except for the load it imposed.