Je 2004-11-11 16:23:43 +0000, Kake L Pugh skribis:
On Wed 10 Nov 2004, Paul Makepeace openguides.org@paulm.com wrote:
I don't know why there are sometimes dozens of instances of this script in the process table. Perhaps it's some harvesting exercise; something search scripts might be vulnerable to? Wild guess.
I think it's probably because the script is so slow. People press submit, wait, "nothing happens", they think it didn't work, they press submit again and again.
Hmm. Thought: if you had a queuing system one component of that would be the "please hold" server push page. This could be re-used (pre-used?) to let users know their search is in progress, quite apart from any queuing, to deter users behaving like coke-starved labrats.
I'm also trying to offer a solution that isn't heavy on your time so the service could come back up asap - queuing searches during load.
Do you know of some already-working thing that does this? There's been discussion on IRC but we haven't come up with a good way to do it yet.
I'm a frayed knot. London.pm?
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