From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2005 11:07:25 GMT
Subject: Re: gitweb.cgi
Message-ID: <20051018110725.GB6929@vrfy.org>
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