[Catalog-sig] start on static generation, and caching - apache config.

[Nathan R. Yergler]

On 7/10/07, "Martin v. Löwis" <martin at v.loewis.de> wrote:
> > I'm not happy with PyPI's performance either.
> > Probably many users are like me:  I thought it was
> > common knowledge that the performance of PyPI was bad
>
> Please trust me that it isn't. I know that PyPI could
> become unresponsive, and I FIXED that. AFAICT, it's
> solved, done, can't happen again. I do not know that
> performance IS bad; I know that it WAS bad (primarily
> not due to the way the software was written, but
> due to the way it was run).

The speed has noticeably improved (thanks!) but as recently as Monday
PyPI was unresponsive and then returning proxy errors.  It definitely
caused us (Creative Commons) to lose productivity Monday afternoon
(PDT).

Nathan


>
> > but
> > I didn't want to complain when it appeared that people were
> > working on improvements.
>
> Sure: mere complaints would not be constructive. However,
> specific *reports* of problems are absolutely necessary.
> If you experience problems today, tomorrow, next week,
> by all means, report them. Different people apparently
> also have different perception what good performance is,
> so please always make a full bug report:
>
> - what precisely did you do (including "when" also
>   in this case),
> - what happened,
> - what did you expect to happen instead
>
> Regards,
> Martin
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