Re: kernel.org mirroring (Re: [GIT PULL] MMC update)

> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>> I'm surprised that Apache can't do that. Or maybe it can, and it just 
>> needs some configuration entry? I don't know apache.. I realize that 
>> because Apache doesn't know before-hand whether something is cacheable or 
>> not, it must probably _default_ to running the CGI scripts to the same 
>> address in parallel, but it would be stupid to not have the option to 
>> serialize.
> 
> AFAIK it doesn't have such an option, for basically the reason
> you describe.  I worked on a project which had much more difficult
> to answer queries than gitweb and were also very popular.  Yes,
> the system died under any load, no matter how much money was thrown
> at it.  :-)