Subject: Re: [vserver] [wiki] a script to automatically update experimental patches table
From:Bartłomiej Ochman <fback+vs@fback.net>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:41:05 +0200

Rik Bobbaers wrote:
> 
> sounds good!
> but why not create it on the fly? (or is that too "stressful"?)

This would require some modifications of MediaWiki, which I'm not able 
to do.

Beside, this would additionally extend time required to generate the 
page, depending on connectivity between the host the wiki is running on, 
and two other hosts, and unnecessarily load them:

> 2009-09-18 18:29:34.933259 fetching data
> 2009-09-18 18:29:35.985843 got the data from 13thfloor, building dictionary
> 2009-09-18 18:29:35.986039 fetching grsec data
> 2009-09-18 18:29:36.100021 got the data, building dictionary
> 2009-09-18 18:29:36.100179 table ready, fetching form from wiki server
> 2009-09-18 18:29:36.388618 building body
> 2009-09-18 18:29:36.388666 sending data to the wiki server
> 302 Found 
> 2009-09-18 18:29:37.144840 done

(as you can see, most of the time is spent communicating with the 
servers, and this is dump from 3rd running, when some data was already 
cached, the first run considerably longer)

This approach would cause the contents to be build every time page is 
loaded, while it's required only when new patches arrive.

Best Regards!
BO