[GRASS5] grass.itc.it: up again - IP traffic restrictions

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Jun 05, 2003 at 12:28:39PM +0200, Bernhard Reiter wrote:
> Markus,
> thanks to you and ITC-irst
> for the continuing efforts to host GRASS.

Cheers :-)
It's also interesting to learn all this throttling etc.

> On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 11:32:35AM +0200, Markus Neteler wrote:
[...]
> > If you get a message: 
> >   "503 - Service temporarily not available"
> > the server is overloaded. Please use a mirror site close to you.

Now the mirrors page is included. Soonish we will have three
or four tier-1 mirror sites which read from grass.itc.it and
provide themselves rsync access.

> > Probably the "throttle" parameters have to be tuned in a few days.
> > 
> > The current policy is:
> > - allow 1 Mbit/4sec in general, otherwise "sleep" two seconds

now: 2Mbit/4sec

> > - allow 500Kbit/2sec per IP, otherwise "sleep" two seconds

left unchanged
 
> > We have to see how to treat short peaks.

So far more than 2000 people have seen "503-overload" during the last
24 hours. They may enjoy the mirror sites.

Note: 
Currently the search engine doesn't work any more due to the new
password protection of the archives. I'll have to look into this.

Markus