[support] [infrastructure] 'Packaging' woes

[Gerhard Killesreiter]

Steven Wittens wrote:

OSUOSL, any idea what this could be? It is not related to any packaging 
on our side.

Cheers,
	Gerhard


> It seems every day at 10am and 10pm PST, Drupal.org goes unresponsive  
> for up to half an hour... people say it's the packaging script, but  
> as far as I can tell, the load uniformly drops flat on all our  
> machines at this time.
> 
> Besides, if it was only one server running the packaging (I'd assume  
> drupal3, as that's where CVS is), it shouldn't affect other systems.  
> And if drupal3 was somehow hogging the database, then the database  
> load would go up, not down, at this time, and we'd see Drupal DB  
> error screens rather than unresponsive web servers.
> 
> In fact, it seems none of the requests reach our web servers at all,  
> so it might even be network-related (the pushing out of the packages  
> to OSUOSL FTP hogging all the bandwidth maybe?).
> 
> 
> In any case, this is /really/ embarrasing for a web project and  
> people complain it on #drupal daily like clockwork. I've tried to  
> look at it, but my findings don't make sense.
> 
> Steven
>