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.