On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, Mark Christensen wrote:
A number of people are now working on stress testing
this software before it
is put into production. And I think there is a general commitment to
solving the performance problem, and I see lots of movement in the right
direction.
This is fine, but you are trying a new car, and I want you to mount a
speedometer so we can monitor the speed while driving, continuously
keeping an eye on the problem instead of making believe we can fix it
once and for all. The timer that is included in an HTML comment could be
appended to a log file, and then there would have to be a way to review
that log file. We did discuss this before, and someone was guessing that
appending a line to a file would take too much time, but I don't think
anybody tested this. The append to file could be conditioned so only
accesses that took more than 2 (or 5) seconds were logged.
And, needless to say, this needs to be done on all web pages, including
the edits, diffs, and specials, and for all languages.
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Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
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