Re: [RFD] My thoughts about implementing gitweb output caching

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On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> > With output caching gitweb can also support 'Range' requests, which
> > means that it would support resumable download.  This would mean hat we
> > would be able to resume downloading of snapshot (or in the future
> > bundle)... if we cannot do this now.  This would require some more code
> > to be added.
> 
> Exciting stuff.
> 
> Teaching gitweb to generate bundles sounds like a recipe for high server
> loads, though.  I suspect manual (or by cronjob) generation would work
> better, with a possible exception of very frequently cloned and
> infrequently pushed-to repos like linus's linux-2.6.

Even for Linus' linux repo, it is not a good idea to auto create bundle, 
except maybe once every major release which is every 3 months or so.  I 
really don't think this is a good idea to put this in the realm of 
gitweb caching.


Nicolas
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