[Clipart] Recent fd.o disk IO is our issue

[Jon Phillips]

Well, Bryce and I noticed massive disk IO issues with the
freedesktop.org server that OCAL is on. We both discussed this with
Daniels and he recently just posted this on the chat channel:

(00:48:24) daniels: um, guys
(00:48:35) daniels: so, there's good news and bad news
(00:48:47) daniels: good news: i found out what's causing the io load on
gabe
(00:48:49) daniels: bad news: it's you
(00:48:55) daniels: /cgi-bin/navigate is incredibly disk-heavy
(00:49:26) daniels: also, navigate and the screenshot script are
insecure in terms of allowing external paths
(00:49:32) daniels: i.e. not normalising ../../../, etc
(00:49:35) daniels: bbl

Thus, we should discuss these issues, as DMS is also very disk-centric
as well. Also, as our clipart library increases in size these issues are
going to be coming up more and more.

We should think about how to speed up the navigate engine and fix the
security problem in the navigate and screenshot scripts. Thoughts?

Jon

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