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Re: gitweb.cgi

From
HAH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date
Oct 18, 2005, 17:24 UTC
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Kay Sievers wrote:
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> 
>>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 ... :)
> 
Welcome to my hell :)

I set up mod_cache (which I didn't know about, silly me) and so far it seems to work and has produced a tremendous decrease in load and improvement in response time. I do, have, however, a request. There are some gitweb pages which are more likely to change than others; in particular, some gitweb pages will *never* change (because they directly reflect immutable git data.)

If gitweb could produce Last-Modified and Expires headers where appropriate, it should improve caching performance.

	-hpa
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