It appears we're being Googled this morning. Googlebot is very well-behaved, and I'm not sure if that's the problem or not, but I suspect it might be, especially since it doesn't really know that all the international wikis are on one server, so while it's being very nice to each of them, it might be collectively bogging them down. Let's see if it clears up when Google is done; if not, then we know something else is going on. -- Lee Daniel Crocker &lt;lee(a)piclab.com&gt; <http://www.piclab.com/lee/> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Lee Daniel Crocker wrote: Googlebot is fairly light (several seconds to 30 seconds between requests, and follows our robots.txt restrictions - its getting articles, not millions of diffs or contribs pages. It's only a fraction of total pages being served). I have written them an e-mail asking if it's possible to restrict the spidering to off-peak hours, though. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

On Tue, 11 Mar 2003, Brion Vibber wrote: I should point out too that I tried barring googlebot (by 403 Forbidden reponses) for the last ten minutes or so. No improvement in response time, so I've restored access. -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)