This post originated from an RSS feed registered with Agile Buzz
by James Robertson.
Original Post: MOre fretting over RSS and bandwidth
Feed Title: Cincom Smalltalk Blog - Smalltalk with Rants
Feed URL: http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/rssBlog/rssBlogView.xml
Feed Description: James Robertson comments on Cincom Smalltalk, the Smalltalk development community, and IT trends and issues in general.
Don Park links to Gary Lawrence Murphy, who is getting hit with enough RSS requests daily that it has become on ongoing slashdot effect. He muses about a whole bunch of possible fixes involving peer to peer (etc) - but brushes by the biggest problem lightly:
The RadioUserland aggregator accounts for a noticeable chunk of my stats, and while Lawrence assures me the Manila web-based aggregator will cache across the server (each client gets the same cached copy) most of Userland is using the client-side version, and that one doesn't.
Unless I'm reading that wrong, it sounds like Userland isn't handling doing if modified since correctly. That's a client side bug, not a generic problem with RSS. Forum based sites (like, say EzBoard) have dealt with tremendous levels of usage - it's a well understood problem. The reason it's affecting bloggers is that most bloggers are not commercial entities, and simply can't handle the kind of load that hits highly popular sites.
Previous Topic
