From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 17:51:51 GMT
Subject: Re: .git/info/refs
Message-ID: <45C228B7.7080301@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070201173234.GA29170@moooo.ath.cx>

Matthias Lederhofer wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>> Yes, it does matter, because it drives the load up further.  If you 
>> start having this going on in overlapping instances, then you're soon on 
>> the downhill slope of a cascading failure.
> Add some other locking mechanism.
> 
>> And we have already experimented with it.  It unfortunately doesn't help 
>> much, it only makes matters worse.
> The gitweb overview page has less than one hit per minute?  Otherwise
> this should help.

We already cache it with a forced duration of some 15 minutes.  The end 
result is exactly the same.

	-hpa