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gitweb: Load checking
authorJohn 'Warthog9' Hawley <redacted>
Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:30:39 +0000 (23:30 +0100)
committerLady <redacted>
Mon, 6 Apr 2026 04:50:39 +0000 (00:50 -0400)
This changes slightly the behavior of gitweb, so that it verifies
that the box isn't inundated with before attempting to serve gitweb.
If the box is overloaded, it basically returns a 503 Server Unavailable
until the load falls below the defined threshold.  This helps dramatically
if you have a box that's I/O bound, reaches a certain load and you
don't want gitweb, the I/O hog that it is, increasing the pain the
server is already undergoing.

This behavior is controlled by $maxload configuration variable.
Default is a load of 300, which for most cases should never be hit.
Unset it (set it to undefined value, i.e. undef) to turn off checking.

Currently it requires that '/proc/loadavg' file exists, otherwise the
load check is bypassed (load is taken to be 0).  So platforms that do
not implement '/proc/loadavg' currently cannot use this feature
(provisions are included for additional checks to be added by others).

There is simple test in t/t9501-gitweb-standalone-http-status.sh to
check that it correctly returns "503 Service Unavailable" if load is
too high, and also if there are any Perl warnings or errors.

Signed-off-by: John 'Warthog9' Hawley <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Narebski <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>

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