I can confirm the performance currently is terrible.
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Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
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> I am not happy with how slow the archives site is. It reflects
> bad on PostgreSQL and supports the stereotype of PG being "slow".
> For example, this page:
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> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers-win32/2004-07/msg00003.php
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> took 27 seconds to load completely. Some days, the times are better, but
> it always takes a notieeable delay for the page to load. It also seems
> to load in three sections: the top banner ad / search box, the title
> and header section, and then the rest of the page. The first two load
> today in about 10 seconds, the third about 16 seconds after that.
> Subsequent hits tend to be much faster (disk caching one presumes), so
> if you test, change the above URL to a random month, day, and message.
> I don;t think it is on my end: I'm on a very fast connection, and (for
> comparison) pgsql.ru loads very, very fast, and runs it searches of
> the entire archives faster than arhives.postgresql.org can display
> a single message.
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> - --
> Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com
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