[openbeos] Re: Fwd: Trac speed issues

2008/5/17 Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>:
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> -------- Original-Nachricht --------
>> Datum: Sat, 17 May 2008 12:55:18 +0200
>> Von: "Waldemar Kornewald" <wkornewald@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> An: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Betreff: [openbeos] Fwd: Trac speed issues
>
>> Hi everyone!
>> It looks like Axel has fixed Trac's speed issues. The site is fast and
>> responsive, again.
>>
>> As it turns out, search engines caused all the traffic because they
>> tried to index all commits and diffs between all revisions. As you can
>> imagine, the number of combinations quickly sums up to many hundreds
>> of millions of pages to index. So, the solution was to add a simple
>> robots.txt file to prevent search engines from indexing the _whole_
>> Trac site.
>
> Actually, the credit goes to someone in the Haiku IRC. I forgot the nick 
> because I am getting old... I showed up in the channel the other day and 
> someone told me that he thinks this would be the problem and that we should 
> have a robots.txt in the Trac root folder. He also told me what the contents 
> should be. So I forwarded this info to Axel, since I knew he recently gained 
> admin access to the site. A *big* "Thank you!" to whoever it was who told me 
> this! Trac is a very important tool for us, and the slowness was definitely a 
> big PITA. Now it has become so much more useable!
>

Couldn't resist to take a look at the IRC log ;-)
http://echelog.matzon.dk/logs/browse/haiku/1210456800

luroh seems to be the guy to thank!

> Best regards,
> -Stephan
>
>


Regards,
-- 
Salvatore Benedetto (a.k.a. emitrax)
Student of Computer Engineer
University of Pisa
www.haiku-os.it

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