I was tracing into why sources.gentoo.org is so slow at times, and
gives errors, timeouts etc. I found that there is wget being used
against the site, with a lot of rapid-fire requests for the *checkout*
URLs - most often for entire directories. And very often, right when
wget is being used, the sources.g.o performance sucks badly.

The wget requests account for 25-30% of the daily requests to
sources.gentoo.org. It's meant for browsing, not pulling.

If you are pulling multiple files, or some file on a regular basis, you
should be using the anoncvs/anonsvn systems instead.

export ANON=":pserver:anonymous@g.o:/var/cvsroot"
Listing the files for a package:
# cvs -z0 -d $ANON rls gentoo-x86/$CAT/$PN/

Grabbing an entire package:
# T=`mktemp -d`
# cvs -z0 -d $ANON co -d $T gentoo-x86/$CAT/$PN

Grabbing a single file, without a temp:
# cvs -z0 -d $ANON co -p gentoo-x86/$CAT/$PN/$FILENAME >$OUTPUTFILE

Pursuant to the above, the any useragent matching /^Wget/ will be
blocked from the 'gentoo' and 'gentoo-x86' repos of sources.gentoo.org
as of July 14th.

Either change to using the proper anonymous service, or change your
useragent to describe what you are doing with the service, so that I can
specifically ban your user-agent if it's causing too much load.

-- 
Robin Hugh Johnson
Gentoo Linux Developer & Infra Guy
E-Mail     : robbat2@g.o
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