OpenGuides-Dev July 2006

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[OpenGuides-Dev] OG performance
by Paul Makepeace 20 Jun '07

20 Jun '07

Hi, I don't follow OG development but as host operator a few things are coming up. The machine's load is gradually climbing over time and some of that is OG. Despite a relatively low hit rate on OG it is consuming quite a bit of resource. If OG started taking off it would take the machine down. First up: index.cgi requires 0.35s to perform a `perl -c` syntax check. Any thoughts on putting OG on a mod_perl server? I have mod_perl running here of course and we'd need to coordinate some apache.conf stuff. Second: the supersearch.cgi gulps down CPU, often for seconds at a time. It is a frequent resident of `top` output. This isn't really acceptable. I'm going to request this feature be turned off unless an effective optimisation plan or some other way to reduce its impact here is constructed pretty soon. Sorry about this but it's encroaching on others. Third: I wonder if there's some way to instruct robots not to spider parts of your wiki. This ought to speak for itself: $ grep crawl /var/log/apache/london.openguides.org-access.log | grep 'action=edit' | wc -l 8242 $ Finally: I posted about a DoS and was wondering what the status of a solution was. http://openguides.org/mail/openguides-dev/2004-October/000542.html Cheers, Paul (any overbearing tone unintentional ;-) -- Paul Makepeace .............................. http://paulm.com/inchoate/ "If my elbow was straight, then I'll show oyu mine!" -- http://paulm.com/toys/surrealism/

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More on feeds
by Nick Burch 13 Jul '06

13 Jul '06

Hi All I've mostly finished my latest batch of feeds related changes. They're live on the Cotswolds site, and Dom hopes to do a new release including them in the not too distant future. The main new stuff is: * you can now get rss+atom feeds of the search results * you can get rss+atom feeds of the all the nodes in a category or locale * you can get rss+atom feeds of all the categories or locales * the feeds stuff should be (pretty) fully documented at http://dev.openguides.org/wiki/FeedsIntro If people could poke it all (lots of examples on the wiki), and see how they get on, that'd be great. Then we just need people to do funky stuff with these feeds! For example, I've got some series 60 python code that loads a user defined URL with the current (gps derived) lat+long. Anyone fancy writing some code to go and find all the pubs within 2km of that location, across all the guides? Go on, be inspired :) Nick

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Spam remover tool
by Clair 07 Jul '06

07 Jul '06

I've written a spam remover tool for OpenGuides... it detects at least the popular spam on the Lancaster guide, and requests the page to delete it. You'll need Ruby. Find it at http://www.lancs.ac.uk/~shawc2/programming/ogspam/ogspam.tgz Clair

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OpenGuides-Dev July 2006