can't query PR database

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2006-11-04 18:03, "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon at freebsd.org> wrote:
>On 2006.11.03 19:05:13 +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>>On 2006-11-02 18:59, soralx at cydem.org wrote:
>>>
>>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi:
>>>
>>> (502) The proxy server could not handle the request GET /cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi.
>>>
>>> Reason: Could not connect to remote machine: Connection refused
>>
>> This must have been a temporary, transient failure, or a failure of
>> proxy between you and the PR database.  It works fine from here, now.
>
> The problem was caused by squid not running on www.FreeBSD.org, so it
> needed to be manually restarted.  The root cause was that too many
> query-pr requests were running simultaneously, which caused
> www.FreeBSD.org to run out of memory and swap.  The query-pr CGI
> script has been "fixed" so it shouldn't be able to do this again.

Heh, yeah I got that this could be related to the query-pr locking you
mentioned in the commits logs, but I had already posted that it seemed
to work ok by then.  Thanks for the explanation :)