I've been a bit curious about these load worries. I don't understand why this site has such problems, although I would say its great right now and I seldom see any slowness like was the norm a year ago but there seems to be a constant worry among the monks. Is it because of the quality of the server or the service? I understand its a free site with little to no means of makeing money so I could see that as being the limiting factor. Is it because of the everything engine? Is it realy that slow that it can't handle XML requests too often? Or is the population here realy so huge as to put the website under? I know full well I might have missed the mark completley here so feel free to straighten me out. If XML requests are that big of issue, wouldn't a caching solution that updated at perlmonks preffered minimum be a good idea? Then clients that tried to refresh more often would just get the same info and there should poll less since polling more gets them no benefit. Just a curiousity not a gripe or anything so plase don't take this all the wrong way.


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Eric Hodges

In reply to Re: XML Ticker Refresh Rates by eric256
in thread XML Ticker Refresh Rates by demerphq

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