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From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: gitweb.cgi
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 13:07:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051018110725.GB6929@vrfy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43546492.3020401@zytor.com>

On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 07:57:22PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> It is increasingly clear that gitweb.cgi is producing an unacceptable 
> load on the kernel.org servers.

Sure, sorry, was on 3 conferences in a row the last weeks.

> Most of the hits we get are either the 
> gitweb front page or the gitweb rss feeds, and it's eating I/O bandwidth 
> like crazy.

I tested some stuff on these boxes and 30 stat() calls alone take app. 2 seconds
on these boxes cause of I/O load ... :)

> This has become particularly painful during the current one-server outage.
> 
> Kay, gitweb really needs to be able to do caching, or be run behind a 
> caching proxy.  Otherwise I will have to turn it off until we can come 
> up with a dedicated piece of server hardware for it.

How about Apache's mod_cache? Worked nicely for me several times in other
setups.

Kay

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-18 11:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-18  2:57 gitweb.cgi H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-18 11:07 ` Kay Sievers [this message]
2005-10-18 16:52   ` gitweb.cgi H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-18 17:24   ` gitweb.cgi H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-18 20:44     ` gitweb.cgi Brian Gerst
2005-10-19  0:27     ` gitweb.cgi Linus Torvalds
2005-10-19  0:30       ` gitweb.cgi H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-19  0:53         ` Optimize common case of git-rev-list (was Re: gitweb.cgi) Linus Torvalds
2005-10-19  0:38       ` gitweb.cgi H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-19  1:02         ` gitweb.cgi Linus Torvalds
2005-10-19  1:14           ` gitweb.cgi H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-19 13:59             ` gitweb.cgi Linus Torvalds
2005-10-19 16:16               ` gitweb.cgi H. Peter Anvin
2005-10-19  1:23           ` gitweb.cgi Kay Sievers
2005-10-19  1:33     ` gitweb.cgi Kay Sievers

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