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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Fri Feb 02 03:53:38 2007
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