Comment Comment by colinsane > Is the CPU cost actually worse than mildly annoying everyone> What is the cost of 20% and is that cost worth “mildly annoying” everyone?from the articled:> With a bunch of generous assumptions, legitimate requests are only about 2% of git.kernel.org traffic — everything else are scrapers.this is not some "CPU use is 20% higher than baseline" situation. it seems that people still do not understand the scale of these bad actors. parent colinsane 2 months ago
> What is the cost of 20% and is that cost worth “mildly annoying” everyone?
from the articled:
> With a bunch of generous assumptions, legitimate requests are only about 2% of git.kernel.org traffic — everything else are scrapers.
this is not some "CPU use is 20% higher than baseline" situation. it seems that people still do not understand the scale of these bad actors.