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Re: [PATCH] gitweb: Support caching projects list

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JJ.H. <warthog19@eaglescrag.net>
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Mar 14, 2008, 00:30 UTC
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You would be better off using some of the logic I've got in the caching version of gitweb to prevent the race condition.

- John 'Warthog9' Hawley
On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 20:27 -0400, Jay Soffian wrote:
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> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz> wrote:
> 
> >  There is a more conceptual problem though - in case of such big sites,
> >  it really makes more sense to explicitly regenerate the cache
> >  periodically instead of making random clients to have to wait it out.
> 
> Fork off a child to update the cache?
> 
> >  Unlikely. Currently the machine is mostly IO-bound and only small
> >  portion of CPU usage comes from gitweb itself.
> 
> Except that if it were FastCGI or mod_perl you could just keep the cache in
> memory.
> 
> j.
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  1. gitweb: Support caching projects listPetr Baudis, Mar 13, 2008
  2. Jay SoffianMar 14, 2008
  3. Petr BaudisMar 14, 2008
  4. Jay SoffianMar 14, 2008
  5. J.H.Mar 14, 2008
  6. Jakub NarebskiMar 14, 2008
  7. J.H.Mar 14, 2008
  8. repo.or.cz renovationPetr Baudis, Mar 17, 2008
  9. Petr BaudisMar 17, 2008
  10. J.H.Mar 17, 2008
  11. Jakub NarebskiMar 17, 2008
  12. Jakub NarebskiMar 17, 2008
  13. Jakub NarebskiMar 14, 2008
  14. Jay SoffianMar 14, 2008
  15. Junio C HamanoMar 14, 2008
  16. Frank LichtenheldMar 14, 2008
  17. Jakub NarebskiMar 14, 2008
  18. Petr BaudisMar 17, 2008
  19. Jakub NarebskiMar 15, 2008
  20. Miklos VajnaMar 16, 2008
  21. Frank LichtenheldMar 16, 2008
  22. J.H.Mar 16, 2008
  23. Jakub NarebskiMar 16, 2008
  24. J.H.Mar 16, 2008
  25. Jakub NarebskiMar 16, 2008
  26. repo.or.cz renovatedPetr Baudis, Mar 17, 2008
  27. Junio C HamanoMar 17, 2008
  28. Petr BaudisMar 17, 2008
  29. Theodore TsoMar 17, 2008
  30. Petr BaudisMar 17, 2008

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