Re: kernel.org mirroring (Re: [GIT PULL] MMC update)

Shawn Pearce wrote:

Linus Torvalds [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

I'm surprised that Apache can't do that. Or maybe it can, and it just 
needs some configuration entry? I don't know apache.. I realize that 
because Apache doesn't know before-hand whether something is cacheable or 
not, it must probably _default_ to running the CGI scripts to the same 
address in parallel, but it would be stupid to not have the option to 
serialize.

AFAIK it doesn't have such an option, for basically the reason
you describe.  I worked on a project which had much more difficult
to answer queries than gitweb and were also very popular.  Yes,
the system died under any load, no matter how much money was thrown
at it.  :-)

You certainly can be smarter about it when you know the nature of the 
query, though.  I do that with the patch viewer scripts.