From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: gitweb.cgi Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:30:17 -0700 Message-ID: <43559399.2030903@zytor.com> References: <43546492.3020401@zytor.com> <20051018110725.GB6929@vrfy.org> <43552FC2.3000000@zytor.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Kay Sievers , Git Mailing List X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 19 02:31:41 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ES1qj-00030w-OY for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 19 Oct 2005 02:30:34 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932366AbVJSAab (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:30:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932369AbVJSAab (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:30:31 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([192.83.249.54]:15291 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932366AbVJSAaa (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Oct 2005 20:30:30 -0400 Received: from [10.4.1.13] (yardgnome.orionmulti.com [209.128.68.65]) (authenticated bits=0) by terminus.zytor.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j9J0UMhp012013 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 18 Oct 2005 17:30:22 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7-1.1.fc4 (X11/20050929) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Linus Torvalds In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.87, clamav-milter version 0.87 on localhost X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on terminus.zytor.com Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Linus Torvalds wrote: > > It really doesn't work very well with the "front page" though.. > > Doing a "Save page as.." shows that it's not a huge page: it's roughly 700 > lines long and 57kB in size, but pressing the reload button (or just going > somewhere else and coming back immediately) takes 45 seconds to reload for > me. > > Trying again shows that it _is_ cached if you press the reload button > immediately again, but I haven't quite figured out how long the cache > timeout is. It seems to be around one minute (from some very preliminary > tests it's more than 25 seconds, but less than a minute and a half). > The cache timeout is set to 300 seconds, however, that's per server, of course. > Considering that apparently the load is enough that it takes 45 seconds to > generate (scary in itself), is should clearly be cached for more than one > minute. More like ten minutes or half an hour, especially since mirroring > any content changes takes longer than that anyway. The latency for an I/O operation on the kernel.org servers is positively scary. -hpa