Timeouts uploading to Hackage

[Don Stewart]

ross:
> On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 08:05:32AM -0700, Don Stewart wrote:
> > Malcolm.Wallace:
> > > Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > A couple of users have reported timeouts uploading to Hackage.
> > > > I've noticed upload times taking longer and longer of previous weeks.
> > > 
> > > Uploads to Hackage have been rather flaky since day one, in my
> > > experience.  I have often had two or three timeouts or complete hangs
> > > before an attempt finally succeeds.  Since Hackage is hosted on the same
> > > machine as darcs.haskell.org, which also has had numerous connection
> > > problems, I just assumed this was normal.
> > 
> > Shouldn't have any connection problems since we switched the routers 3
> > or 4 months ago. I wonder though how expensive the upload script is (it
> > has to regenerate some things that are now quite big?)
> 
> I experienced the same thing myself on the weekend, but I don't know
> what's causing it.  The largest generated file is 10MB in the pipe,
> compressing to 840KB.  The machine has 1.5GB.

Seems like no one is able to upload at the moment?