Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Feb 2003 15:23:35 +0100 (MET) | From | Geert Uytterhoeven <> | Subject | Re: openbkweb-0.0 |
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On Thu, 6 Feb 2003, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 08:37:37PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > You may want to enable mod_deflate, and then scripts can easily make use > > > of gzip compressed data. May not be an end-all, but something to > > > consider. > > > > Gzip will give 4:1 what these scripts are doing is more like 1000:1. > > So gzipping the data gets you down to 250:1. That's still way more > > bandwidth, way too much to be acceptable. > > Larry, would it be acceptable/possible to regularly push some data/metadata > to sites like kernel.org that people already consult for kernel development ? > This way, Andrea's tool would only have to check kernel.org, and not bkbits.net. > > Another solution is to fetch from a reverse proxy-cache on a high-bandwidth > site, provided that we know what to cache, of course. This could even reduce > your current HTTP usage since nearly everything should be cacheable for a very > long period.
Can't all information be extracted from the bk-commits* mailing lists postings?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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