From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 16:52:46 GMT
Subject: Re: .git/info/refs
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702011749100.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <45C2124C.5070308@zytor.com>

Hi,

On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I just had another idea: why not generate the content of the "cover page" in
> > a cron job, every minute or so, and save it into a static index.html? This
> > should take quite a load from the server, since not even Perl has to be
> > started to serve that page.
> > 
> 
> Ehm... because it often takes longer than that to generate the page?

Sorry, I should have been clearer. Plan:

1. echo "Generating" > /htdocs/git/index.html
2. edit crontab to do this every minute:
2.1 gitweb is called directly_, to generate /htdocs/git/index.html.new
2.2 /htdocs/git/index.html.new is _moved_ into /htdocs/git/index.html, 
    overwriting the existing one.

Yes, there could be two instances of this task concurrently. No, it does 
not matter.

> We can pre-generate the page before the first hit, but that's not a 
> replacement for update-time caching.

It was only meant as a quick fix for the horrible workload.

Just a thought, feel free to ignore me,
Dscho