Every page is several database accesses and several Perl eval calls. See DBIx::VersionedSubs for something like it, but not used on Perlmonks itself.

I think converting to static files for (say) SoPW nodes for Anonymous Monk might reduce the load so that the site remains accessible for the human users. I'm thinking of measuring the impact of a -f call for every page load. Of course, using static files means that the nodelets are either stale or need to be removed from Anonymous Monks view of the site.

Caching is of no use, since the bots are basically hitting all URLs with equal randomness, so there is no set of "hot" nodes.

In reply to Re^4: Perlmonks site has become far too slow by Corion
in thread Perlmonks site has become far too slow by stevieb

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