From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1296 invoked by alias); 11 Jun 2003 12:42:50 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cgen-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cgen-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 1080 invoked from network); 11 Jun 2003 12:42:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO main.gmane.org) (80.91.224.249) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 11 Jun 2003 12:42:43 -0000 Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Q4ta-0002Hq-00 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:40:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: cgen@sources.redhat.com Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Q4mC-0001g4-00 for ; Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:32:28 +0200 From: Ben Elliston Subject: Re: large web pages Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 12:42:00 -0000 Message-ID: <873cigiyh5.fsf@sashimi.wasabisystems.com> References: <20030611080838.A848BB536@mail.sebabeach.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 X-SW-Source: 2003-q2/txt/msg00092.txt.bz2 Doug Evans writes: > To what extent should I be concerned with overtaxing sources' > resources [sic] with large web pages? I haven't a clue what the > threshold is before I should be concerned. Suggestions? They might be a little big (for various values of "big"), but they will be almost never accessed, so I don't see a problem. If you're really concerned, ask overseers at sources.redhat.com. > I expect the pages to be read rarely (one might imagine a marginal > chance of a slashdot effect tomorrow, but I dunno ...). I hate to rain on your parade, but I doubt it :-) Cheers, Ben