How about generating a mailman list for each page and then subscribing just that list address to each page's alert list ?
----- "Steve McIntyre" wrote: > Package: python-moinmoin > Version: 1.9.3-3~bpo60+1 > Severity: important > Tags: upstream > We've been experiencing performance problems for a while on > wiki.debian.org, which uses moin. Specifically, page saves take a > *very* long time, on the order of 90 seconds on a system that is > otherwise performing well. I've debugged into this and I've found the > problem: the code that works out which users need notifying about page > changes. > We've currently got 10,686 registered users on wiki.debian.org. strace > shows that moin is opening the user data file for every one of those > users in turn to check the subscribed_pages array. That takes a long > time! I've verified this is the problem - hacking saveText to disable > the notification code reduces the page save time from ~90 seconds to > ~3 seconds. > This is clearly an upstream issue - it's a scalability bug in moin's > design. This area needs fixing in some way - maybe add a cache in > front of the user lookup here, or store the subscribed_pages > information differently. I might be able to help with coding this, but > I'd want to see what upstream plans might be first. -- Ean Schuessler, CTO [email protected] 214-720-0700 x 315 Brainfood, Inc. http://www.brainfood.com
