[pydotorg-www] FWD: Wiki Internal Server Error

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Tue Aug 10 23:44:47 CEST 2010


Am 10.08.2010 16:19, schrieb Aahz:
> On Tue, Aug 10, 2010, "Martin v. L?wis" wrote:
>> Am 10.08.2010 01:12, schrieb Aahz:
>>>
>>> Another complaint, will respond to user
>>
>> Ah, that's the 10s CPU quota in force. FWIW, when I just accessed it,
>> it worked fine.
> 
> Right, that's what I told the user.  It would be nice if we could give
> the user a "timeout" page rather than a 500 error ("Your request exceeded
> available processing time, please try again later.").

I think this would be difficult to implement. The process just gets
killed by the kernel when it is over CPU quota.

>> Any proposals on how to solve this appreciated. My own proposal
>> is to move the Wiki to dinsdale, which has more CPUs than ximinez
>> (so would could allocate four of them to the Wiki, and allow for,
>> say, 30s requests).
> 
> That sounds like a fine idea.  Also, I have no idea what the current
> budget of the PSF is, but throwing hardware at problems (i.e. getting a
> dedicated wiki machine) also seems like a fine idea.

We would also have to look for hosting then - XS4ALL won't allow us more
rack space.

Regards,
Martin


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