Re: jitter git repository

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Luca,

> Yesterday was indeed an unusual day; I wanted to check if what I was
> thinking could be the issue, and it was.
> My server hosts a small Tor exit relay.  Near the end of each month,
> if I still have a lot of the allotted bandwidth available, I stop
> throttling and let Tor run with unlimited bandwidth until the current
> metered period ends, on the third day of each month.

That is indeed an unusual traffic pattern, for 4 days each month...

> Well, I can avoid blocking accesses by IP address.

If you could do that, yes, please.

Note that the savannah admins also report heavy amounts of git requests
at particular times or from particular IP addresses. It could be a general
trend: that maintaining a git server, which was a zero-brainer 15 years ago,
is now becoming a constant maintenance burden, due to hostile/abusive/sabotaging
behaviour of some actors on the internet.

Bruno