DSource

[Kyle Furlong]

Lars Ivar Igesund wrote:
> Kyle Furlong wrote:
> 
>> Walter Bright wrote:
>>> Kyle Furlong wrote:
>>>> Okay, so we just got dug, and DSource has been down for more than a
>>>> week. Does anyone else see the problem here? People will be turning
>>>> away as I write this because the main repository of open source
>>>> development in D has a "FATAL: connection limit exceeded for
>>>> non-superusers" message on the front page.
>>>>
>>>> While I appreciate the work done to create and maintain dsource.org, a
>>>> week is not acceptable. I would be happy to help in any capacity to
>>>> get even a mirror up asap.
>>> digitalmars.com saw roughly a 6 fold increase in traffic yesterday.
>> Thats exciting, but what does that have to do with the fact that dsource
>> has been down for much longer than just yesterday? It would have been
>> nice to have some of that increased traffic funneled to a working
>> dsource. What we got is in essence a PR disaster.
> 
> The problems Dsource is having is not really traffic related (although high
> traffic don't help), it is a technical problem in Trac wherein it don't
> release it's db connections the way it should. You might help resolve the
> problem by finding out where in the Trac/Python code the problem is, I know
> Brad would be very happy to find it.

I understand all this. I never thought that dsource was down due to the 
digg effect. I wish that had been the case! At least some of them would 
have seen the site. I was well aware of the connections issue and the 
length of down time which had been going on previous to the whole digg 
thing.