Dear colleagues, Thanks to help of DSA and after tinkering with the code (changes I will push to SVN soon) we have restored the manpages.debian.org service again. The new service aggresively caches the information to prevent spawning multiple CGI processes and using up resources in Glinka. This is done using both mod_cache in the server side and caching in the CGI script. The reason the service was down since Monday is that traffic to this service has increase substantially. We are receiving these days, for some undetermined reason, over 216.000 request each day for Apache's manpages (a2ensite, a2dissite, a2enmod, a2dismod, and a2ensite). Previously, access to the CGI was not cached so all these queries were continously using up resources. Now these queries do not longer hit the server. Sorry for the inconveniences the downtime of the service might have caused. Should you find any issues with the new code, please let me know, I will do my best to fix it. Best regards Javier Fernández-Sanguino
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