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Re: Don't let search bots look at buglist.cgi
On 05/16/2011 02:22 PM, Michael Matz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, 16 May 2011, Andrew Haley wrote:
>
>>>> It's not quite the same information, surely. Wouldn't searchers be
>>>> directed to an email rather than the bug itself?
>>>
>>> Yes, though there is a link in all mails.
>>
>> Right, so we are contemplating a reduction in search quality in exchange
>> for a reduction in server load. That is not an improvement from the
>> point of view of our users, and is therefore not the sort of thing we
>> should do unless the server load is so great that it impedes our
>> mission.
>
> It routinely is. bugzilla performance is terrible most of the time for me
> (up to the point of five timeouts in sequence), svn speed is mediocre at
> best, and people with access to gcc.gnu.org often observe loads > 25,
> mostly due to I/O .
And how have you concluded that is due to web crawlers?
Andrew.