From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 00:27:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitweb: Support caching projects list
Message-ID: <76718490803131727p451967hee96ff26206c97b7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20080314002205.GL10335@machine.or.cz>

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.