[Rubygems-developers] Updating source index is slow

[Mauricio Fernández]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 07:39:17AM -0500, Chad Fowler wrote:
> 
> On 09-Nov-04, at 9:47 PM, Patrick May wrote:
> 
> >
> >On Tuesday, November 9, 2004, at 02:04  AM, Gavin Sinclair wrote:
> >
> >>Updating the source index from the rubyforge server is slow.  This
> >>could be sped up if there were a pure-Ruby rsync implementation
> >>available (for client and server).  Discuss.
> >
> >Does the rubygems client need the entire source index?  It seems to me 
> >that one would be more likely to ask for a list of packages, then 
> >drill individually into the metadata for particular pages.
> >
> >I may be ignorant here -- I'm assuming the client is hitting 
> >http://gems.rubyforge.org/yaml
> >
> >
> 
> You're right.  It grabs (and caches) all of the gem metadata.   Your 
> idea for a solution might be the most pragmatic (as opposed to 
> implementing rsync in ruby ;).
> 
> How big an issue does it seem to be?  For me, the gem repository 
> doesn't update (and therefore I don't have to redownload the yaml) 
> enough to be a serious drag, but I can see how as more gems are 
> released it will get more annoying on the client.

Take a look at 

http://gems.rubyforge.org/usage/usage_200411.html

yaml.z and yaml account for over 50% of the traffic...

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