thor has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Greetings fellow monks,

Is it just me, or has search.cpan.org been really, really slow lately? Queries used to come back in less than a second for me. Nowadays, they can take over 5 minutes...assuming they come back at all. I was curious if anyone knew of an underlying cause for this.

thor

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Re: CPAN search site acting up lately?
by matthewb (Curate) on Jan 20, 2005 at 14:58 UTC
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Re: CPAN search site acting up lately?
by borisz (Canon) on Jan 20, 2005 at 14:58 UTC
    I do not know why CPAN is so slow, but it is slow for me too.
    You can use kobesearch.cpan.org if needed.
    Boris
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Re: CPAN search site acting up lately?
by g0n (Priest) on Jan 20, 2005 at 15:35 UTC
    If you've uploaded anything to PAUSE this week you might want to check it. I uploaded a new version of a module on sunday night, and when I try to download it now I get a borked file with the extension tar.tar and nothing in it. The readme is displayed on CPAN OK though, so I'm pretty sure it wasn't my upload that did it.

    Update - it definitely wasn't my upload file, I just downloaded a similarly borked copy of Inline. Anyone else having problems?

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      Don't use your browser to download files. Try wget or similar. This type of thing has happened before where CPAN doesn't send something like application/content-stream for the Content-Type and the browser goes ahead and ungzip's the file.

      MJD says "you can't just make shit up and expect the computer to know what you mean, retardo!"
      I run a Win32 PPM repository for perl 5.6.x and 5.8.x -- I take requests (README).
      ** The third rule of perl club is a statement of fact: pod is sexy.

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Re: CPAN search site acting up lately?
by renz (Scribe) on Jan 20, 2005 at 17:27 UTC
    I've had CPAN issues since last week, mostly slow downloads and queries. I dunno if there is excessive load on the servers or if it's just flaky routes.

    Eh, I just did a traceroute and things don't seem that bad. 
    C:\perl\bwb>tracert -d www.cpan.org

Tracing route to cpan.pair.com (66.39.76.93)
over a maximum of 30 hops:

(...)
  3    16 ms   250 ms    78 ms  63.209.216.205
  4   218 ms    16 ms    31 ms  64.159.1.253
  5    31 ms    47 ms    31 ms  64.159.0.229
  6   328 ms    31 ms    31 ms  4.68.121.76
  7   187 ms    63 ms    47 ms  64.156.240.30
  8    47 ms    47 ms    46 ms  192.168.1.192
  9    46 ms    47 ms    47 ms  66.39.76.93

Trace complete.

    /renz.
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