Re: Reducing rsync cost

2010-11-24 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:24:18PM +0100, David Landgren wrote: On 22/11/2010 15:18, David Nicol wrote: On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 4:37 AM, David Landgrenda...@landgren.net wrote: Yeah, this is the killer. In an ideal world, we would kill the symlinks such as authors/id/*,

Re: Reducing rsync cost

2010-11-24 Thread David Golden
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 4:23 AM, Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org wrote: Instead of running rsync over the whole tree, it can change to run a top level script that runs rsync over the parts that have to be copied, and then run the symlink generation on the parts that can be recreated locally. The

What hurts you the most in Perl?

2010-11-24 Thread Gabor Szabo
The other day I was at a client that uses Perl in part of their system and we talked a bit about the language and how we try to promote it at various events. Their Perl person then told me he would not use Perl now for a large application because: 1) Threads do not work well - they are better in

Re: What hurts you the most in Perl?

2010-11-24 Thread David Golden
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com wrote: The other day I was at a client that uses Perl in part of their system and we talked a bit about the language and how we try to promote it at various events. Their Perl person then told me he would not use Perl now for a

Re: What hurts you the most in Perl?

2010-11-24 Thread Nicholas Clark
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 07:26:27AM -0500, David Golden wrote: On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 7:01 AM, Gabor Szabo szab...@gmail.com wrote: The other day I was at a client that uses Perl in part of their system and we talked a bit about the language and how we try to promote it at various

Re: What hurts you the most in Perl?

2010-11-24 Thread Martin J. Evans
On 24/11/10 12:01, Gabor Szabo wrote: The other day I was at a client that uses Perl in part of their system and we talked a bit about the language and how we try to promote it at various events. Their Perl person then told me he would not use Perl now for a large application because:

Re: Reducing rsync cost

2010-11-24 Thread Andreas J. Koenig
On Tue, 23 Nov 2010 22:24:18 +0100, David Landgren da...@landgren.net said: I shouldn't even bother replying, but I wouldn't want the archives to think that silence indicates tacit agreement. To give you an update: five tier-1 CPAN sites are pulling a sync every 20 seconds and every