Re: Load on udd.d.o
On Mon, 24 Oct 2011, Andreas Tille wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 08:48:16AM +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> > > Is this something that the publicity team could help with; putting out
> > > a call for donations like was done for snapshot.debian.org?
> >
> > Before going down that path, DSA and/or HW coordination decides a) that
> > they want a new machine to that and b) its configuration. Doing a call
> > for (*hardware*) donation without having decided that could confuse
> > things up. Once that settled, -publicity help would indeed be useful (as
> > an idea: we can mention in it what UDD is used for and how it's useful
> > for the project).
>
> Whatever can be done - I'm in favour of it because Blends tools heavily
> relay on UDD and are currently beaten very hard by slow response.
You probably picked the wrong tool/service to rely on. UDD cannot be
fast by design. It's a data dump that tries to collect as much
information as possible, not facilitate fast and efficient queries.
Cheers,
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