[Popcon-developers] Bug#462268: i dont understand this...

[Bill Allombert]

On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 07:36:09PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thursday 20 March 2008 00:11, you wrote:
> > Must admit I am surprised to see some decrease already, with 77
> > machines upgraded to version 1.44 in unstable, and down 21
> > submissions.
> 
> I must say I'm not surprised. We basically *know* (*) this is because the 
> clients are DOSing the server at the same time, so why be surprised if this 
> comes back, when the code, which prevented this (poorly), was remmoved?

We actually do not know anything. We do not even know that a DOS
actually occured. Not hard data have even been presented to us. The
number of stable subscription has been raising again before we change
unstable. The number of machine running unstable is so small that it
cannot do a difference.  The loss of stable subscriptions can be
explained by the Winter break, a temporary network issue, or anything
else. If a DOS did occur, it would take down every web service hosted
on gluck, not just popcon and we would probably hear from it.

Spreading the load is a good idea in general, and I welcome it, but let
us not jump on undue conclusions.
Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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