| [eclipse.org-committers] June craziness FAQ |
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Greetings, The craziest month of the year is upon us, and regardless of your project's participation in Galileo, here are some handy June FAQ. Feel free to print this list and place it below your monitor for easy reference. Q: Is Eclipse.org down? A: No, it's just slow. Q: Is [Eclipse.org|Bugzilla|CVS|*] slow, or is it just me? A: It's not just you. Q: My build usually takes 2 minutes, now it takes 2 hours. What's happening? A: T'was the month before Ganymede. Q: I usually get 200K/s from download.eclipse.org, now I only get .00001 K/s. Why is it so slow? A: All the bandwidth is gone. On a more serious note, here are some tips that can help make the month more tolerable: TIP: Don't use download.eclipse.org If you must get files from download.eclipse.org and throughput is low, use SCP or SFTP from dev.eclipse.org. You can also use the 'external' trick for faster downloads -- but shhh, that's our little secret. TIP: Don't build and sign for nothing If CI is to take only one month off in the year, this would be it. Signing and building are resource-intensive operations, so before submitting that 12GB nightly build to the sign queue, please reconsider. TIP: Disable unnecessary jobs that run during the week Statistics, CVS queries, CVSSearch, Bugzilla and download stats, or any other cool, but non-essential toys that generate load on our servers can be run on weekends to minimize impact during the week. Weekends at Eclipse.org are defined as Friday 3pm ET to Sunday 6am ET. TIP: Clean up your downloads, archives, home and working directories The fewer files we have to replicate and backup, the better for everyone. I wish everyone a great release; may your download stats accrue and all your bugs be marked RESOLVED FIXED. Denis |