Mailing list archive list search slow, etc

RT Users
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  1. I’m not finding the list archive search
    (http://lists.fsck.com/search.html) to be very helpful, because
    virtually all of the hits are for entire monthly archives, and on
    average, over the past few days, it takes several minutes to download
    one of these. Is the host machine suffering, or is the per-user
    bandwidth being throttled? I have an institutional broadband
    connection, and nothing else is slow for me. I bet lots of people are
    doing what I do, starting a few searches and eventually giving up in
    frustration, meanwhile having socked the machine with several large
    requests.

  2. Not that this matters, but the images used in the htsearch output
    page are broken.

  3. The search query uses conventions I am not familiar with, and there
    is no help link describing the usage. As a result, the odds of a
    monthly archive actually containing what I am looking for tend to be
    extremely low, meaning I go back for another one, and the machine
    groans on …

Because of the speed problem, I plan to download the full raw archives
at http://lists.fsck.com/pipermail/rt-users/, etc and search locally.

Because of these issues, it would be nice if the various piper and
mailman pages linked to each other to make it as easy as possible for
people to find what they need.

Thanks,
Kevin Murphy

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Very useful link for search RT archives:

http://marc.free.net.ph/mindex/rt-users@20380101.000000.00000000.xml

and/or http://marc.free.net.ph/splash/index.xml

A.-----Original Message-----
From: rt-users-admin@lists.fsck.com [mailto:rt-users-admin@lists.fsck.com]
On Behalf Of Kevin Murphy
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 9:16 PM
To: rt-users@lists.fsck.com
Subject: [rt-users] mailing list archive list search slow, etc

  1. I’m not finding the list archive search
    (http://lists.fsck.com/search.html) to be very helpful, because
    virtually all of the hits are for entire monthly archives, and on
    average, over the past few days, it takes several minutes to download
    one of these. Is the host machine suffering, or is the per-user
    bandwidth being throttled? I have an institutional broadband
    connection, and nothing else is slow for me. I bet lots of people are
    doing what I do, starting a few searches and eventually giving up in
    frustration, meanwhile having socked the machine with several large
    requests.

  2. Not that this matters, but the images used in the htsearch output
    page are broken.

  3. The search query uses conventions I am not familiar with, and there
    is no help link describing the usage. As a result, the odds of a
    monthly archive actually containing what I am looking for tend to be
    extremely low, meaning I go back for another one, and the machine
    groans on …

Because of the speed problem, I plan to download the full raw archives
at http://lists.fsck.com/pipermail/rt-users/, etc and search locally.

Because of these issues, it would be nice if the various piper and
mailman pages linked to each other to make it as easy as possible for
people to find what they need.

Thanks,
Kevin Murphy

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GOOGLE: “site:fsck.com [SEARCH CRITERIA]”, or “site:lists.fsck.com
[SEARCH CRITERIA]”

This is my favorite way to search the mail archives.

G. Richard Bellamy
mailto:rbellamy@pteradigm.com
V:707-869-3665

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  1. I’m not finding the list archive search
    (http://lists.fsck.com/search.html) to be very helpful, because
    virtually all of the hits are for entire monthly archives, and on

Thanks for the heads up. That should be fixed once htdig finishes a
full reindexing (it shouldn’t index any of the full archives anymore).

average, over the past few days, it takes several minutes to download
one of these. Is the host machine suffering, or is the per-user
bandwidth being throttled? I have an institutional broadband
connection, and nothing else is slow for me. I bet lots of people are
doing what I do, starting a few searches and eventually giving up in
frustration, meanwhile having socked the machine with several large
requests.

The machine’s pipe has been throttled down, due to the fact that a number of
folks were doing things like sucking down the entirety of the
mailinglist archive and entire ftp directory of all RT releases ever,
sending us skyrocketing over our 1/4 mbit bandwidth allocation.

  1. Not that this matters, but the images used in the htsearch output
    page are broken.

They’ve mostly been removed.

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