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

[Jon Phillips]

On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 11:16 +0300, Nicu Buculei wrote:
> Jon Phillips wrote:
> > 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:
> 
> Unrelated:
> 
> I hope you used the opportunity if he think is OK for Planet Inkscape to 
> be hosted on f.d.o

Man, I haven't asked him. I am chatting with him now and will run it by
him.

> Back on topic:
> 
> I remember some talk back when the navigation was introduced about 
> scalability issues.
> I guess also the search is disk-heavy.
> 
> I don't see a solution except using some kind of database, otherwise we 
> *have* to read all the files all the time.

Hmmm...I think some kind of lite db would be okay, otherwise, that
and/or some form of query caching would be beneficial.

Jon

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