On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 03:10:34PM +0000, Paul Makepeace wrote:
Even just something that kept a track of number of existing executing processes and hung until one was finished, would be enough. A server- push animation `a la airline companies would do it.
One possibility, but I believe Kake has made some improvements to the efficiency of searching too.
Is there a log of what's searched for, where from, and when? Would be interesting to see the pattern of these "attacks" (it certainly appears like an attack), not to mention investigating caching common searches, if you don't already.
That information would normally be available in the Apache access logs; I can't speak for the precise setup on london.openguides.org though.
Dominic.