MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 2026
gcc — Proposed
gitweb broken?
Web interface performance issues persist for Georg-Johann Lay, although general site access seems normal.
Georg-Johann Lay reports continued slowness with the Anubis interface for gitweb, specifically when accessing commit details. While general website access appears normal, the performance issues with Anubis persist, making operations like viewing commits very slow.
In the Thread
- proposer
Reports that Anubis is still very slow for web interface operations, citing a specific commit URL as an example.
“For the web page, all seems normal by now. But Anubis is still very slow, for example at https://gcc.gnu.org/cgit/gcc/commit/?id=f3f8bb6afbcdc8a9dc5e633”
- reviewer
Informs Georg-Johann Lay about upgrades to Anubis and nginx proxy to address scraper bot attacks and improve performance.
“We upgraded Anubis again to 1.26.1 which has various challenge page robustness fixes: https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/releases#release-v1.26.1 That is odd, because neither of those page are behind Anubis. Maybe that was just caused be the general AI scraperbot attacks. We have added an nginx proxy in front of httpd which does the initial tls handshake and gives priority to connections from…”