cgit-70/robots.txt, branch gopher a fork of cgit with a Gopher interface robots.txt: disallow access to snapshots 2013-08-12T19:14:10+00:00 Jason A. Donenfeld Jason@zx2c4.com 2013-05-28T12:17:00+00:00 23debef62104c70600be2b745ec3957538eeac6e My dmesg is filled with the oom killer bringing down processes while the Bingbot downloads every snapshot for every commit of the Linux kernel in tar.xz format. Sure, I should be running with memory limits, and now I'm using cgroups, but a more general solution is to prevent crawlers from wasting resources like that in the first place. Suggested-by: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org> Suggested-by: Julius Plenz <plenz@cis.fu-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com> 
My dmesg is filled with the oom killer bringing down processes while the
Bingbot downloads every snapshot for every commit of the Linux kernel in
tar.xz format. Sure, I should be running with memory limits, and now I'm
using cgroups, but a more general solution is to prevent crawlers from
wasting resources like that in the first place.

Suggested-by: Natanael Copa <ncopa@alpinelinux.org>
Suggested-by: Julius Plenz <plenz@cis.fu-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@zx2c4.com>