From: Konstantin Ryabitsev <konstantin@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>
Cc: Eric Wong <e@80x24.org>, git <git@vger.kernel.org>,
meta@public-inbox.org
Subject: Re: "IMAP IDLE"-like long-polling "git fetch"
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2019 17:49:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190109224909.GC8258@pure.paranoia.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGZ79kb9Tbnxe1mSnxpqT_FO6Gdi6wxd-r2YarHXRF1sVRyxLA@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Jan 09, 2019 at 02:27:25PM -0800, Stefan Beller wrote:
> > > I would've thought somebody had done this by now, but I guess
> > > it's dependent on a bunch of things (TLS layer nowadays, maybe
> > > HTTP/2), so git-daemon support alone wouldn't cut it...
> >
> > Polling is not all bad, especially for large repository collections.
>
> I disagree with that statement.
>
> IIRC, More than half the bandwidth of Googles git servers are used
> for ls-remote calls (i.e. polling a lot of repos, most of them did *not*
> change, by build bots which are really eager to try again after a minute).
Oh, that's not the kind of polling I meant -- we monitor a single
manifest file containing the state of all repositories. It's a static
file served directly by any httpd daemon, and the only traffic is
usually the "not modified" http header.
-K
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-09 22:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-29 3:43 [PATCH] TODO: add note for "IMAP IDLE"-like long-polling "git fetch" Eric Wong
2018-12-29 3:56 ` Eric Wong
2018-12-29 4:38 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2018-12-29 6:13 ` Eric Wong
2019-01-09 22:27 ` Stefan Beller
2019-01-09 22:49 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev [this message]
2019-05-02 8:50 ` Eric Wong
2019-05-02 9:21 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-05-02 9:42 ` Eric Wong
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