Johannes Schindelin wrote:
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.
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.
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.
And we have already experimented with it. It unfortunately doesn't help
much, it only makes matters worse.
-hpa
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