On 17 April 2012 17:51, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Jonathan Wakely wrote: >>Why does saving/editing a page on the GCC wiki take several minutes >>to reload the page? >> >>Opening the page in a new tab shows the changes have been saved, but >>the page still keeps loading. Is there some kind of re-indexing going >>on which is incredibly inefficient? Or does the moinmoinwiki code >>simply not close the TCP connection or something silly like that? > > Looks like the gcc wiki is using the MoinMoin wiki engine, just like > us at wiki.debian.org (where I'm a wiki admin). We've had exactly the > same problem. See > > http://bugs.debian.org/668000 > > for more details of what I found - it's the time taken to scan the > list of users looking for subscription data. I've just added a patch > into the Debian moin package to add a cache to fix most of the > problems with this. It should backport easily to version 1.8.7 that > you're using. See http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinBugs/GetSubscribersSlow for > one of the upstream moin bug reports, and where I found the patch.
Aha! Thanks for the info.
