Mailing List Archive: Re: Some stats for service times with the new server under real loads,

lcrocker@nupedia.com wrote:

>>20020721000038 0194.499 /wiki/Astronomer
>>20020721001207 0018.859 /wiki/Astronomer
>>20020721002017 0122.170 /wiki/Astronomer
>>20020721002354 0171.431 /wiki/Astronomer
>>20020721002825 0110.615 /wiki/Astronomer
>>20020721003134 0068.176 /wiki/Astronomer
>>20020721003758 0159.654 /wiki/Astronomer
>>
>>**Most** accesses to this particular page seem to have taken
>>**over 1 minute**, and yet there appears to be nothing
>>pathological about the contents of the page. This is interesting!
>>
>>
>
>The "Astronomer" page contains an extraordinary number of links,
>mostly to "year" pages. Each link on a page requires a database
>lookup (a quick one, but still a lookup). "Current events" had
>the same problem before I reorganized it. I'm inclined to just
>remove the year links here. They don't really serve much purpose.
>
Argh! I didn't notice that. Thanks for pointing that out.
Wouldn't page caching sort this, though?

Neil