[Qgis-developer] Plugin repo down?

[Alessandro Pasotti]

2016-05-31 8:47 GMT+02:00 Richard Duivenvoorde <rdmailings at duif.net>:

> This morning the plugins.qgis.org was showing nginx because of a config
> change we did to speed up the downloading of plugins.xml
>
> Last 2 days site was often down because some new functionality generated
> a lot more cpu-power, and the download of plugins.xml was not cached
> (anymore).
>
> Alessandro implemented a caching mechanism, so NOW:
> - plugin.xml's are cached (so should be retrieved much faster)
> - site should be much faster because the (live) generated xml's are now
> cached for 10 minutes.
> - server is now almost sleeping compared to last few days
> - it is good (and scary) to seem the amount of plugins.xml that are
> downloaded...
>


This would be the other caching point, we are currently serving the
downloads through Django so that we can increment the download counter.

If the figures continue to grow we will eventually serve them directly.

-- 
Alessandro Pasotti
w3:   www.itopen.it
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