Re: Rescuing live.gnome.org

[David Neary <bolsh gimp org>]

Hi,

Heartfelt excuses, I really didn't expect us to get slashdotted.
I did get the go-ahead before announcing the competition,
apologies again for the inconvenience caused.

Oops?
Dave.

Owen Taylor wrote:
> The gimp splash screen contest
> http://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt_2fGimpSplashContest)
> getting on slashdot was doing rather bad things to window.gnome.org...
> while it wasn't killing the box, the load average was at 105.
> 
> What I did to help with this was take all the images that had
> been already uploaded - (some people uploaded a *lot* of images,
> perhaps the contest organizers want to clamp down and delete some) -
> and duplicate them as:
> 
>  http://live.gnome.org/static/DaveNeary.png
> 
> (etc) which are served statically from 
> /usr/local/www/live.gnome.org/static/
> 
> (Yes, we now have bits of this site in /usr/local/www/live.guadec.org,
> /usr/local/www/live.gnome.org, /var/www/live.gnome.org/. Not ideal,
> was working under time pressure.)
> 
> And then edited the page to turn all the inline: links into that
> form. Someone may need to do this again as more submissions are
> submitted. That person would need write access to 
> /usr/local/www/live.gnome.org, which I've changed ownership
> on gnomeweb:gnomeweb. (Maybe should be wiki:wiki, but more people
> have access to the gnomeweb user.)
> 
> I edited the instructions for submitting new images to say that
> you have to change the static link to inline: form when copying-and-
> pasting an existing entry. Hopefully it's clear.
> 
> Load average is back down to 2-3, and things seem a lot happier.
> of course, things might be happier because I've screwed it all 
> up, let me know if that's the case :-)
> 
> Regards,
> 						Owen
> 
> 



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