On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 11:08 AM [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote:
> "It was restarted 3 minutes ago" > > Wow, this finally fixed '?' references in PDF files (example > <https://us.metamath.org/downloads/finiteaxiom.pdf>) which should've been > fixed <https://github.com/metamath/metamath-website-scripts/issues/19> in > June 2024. (archive from August 2025 > <https://web.archive.org/web/20250801041609/https://us.metamath.org/downloads/finiteaxiom.pdf> > ) > It seems that nobody bothered to rebuild it since then, despite my comment > in the pull request over one year ago. > I think this is because while metamath-website-seed is re-pulled every day as part of the site rebuild, metamath-website-scripts is only re-pulled when the linode machine is rebooted, which has basically happened only once(?), just now, since we started using this workflow after Norm passed in 2021. So we've been using an old script since then... Ideally the daily script would also replace itself with the latest script from metamath-website-scripts to avoid this issue. On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM 'David A. Wheeler' via Metamath < [email protected]> wrote: > Regenerating the website takes more time than GitHub Actions will provide > for free. I think this is not necessarily the case. The mm-web-rs website generator is way way faster than metamath-exe, I expect the full website generation to take 5 minutes or less if we actually use it. On Mon, Nov 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM 'David A. Wheeler' via Metamath < [email protected]> wrote: > The website is regenerated daily. This is a *good* thing, because serving > static pages to many systems is efficient, and all websites are now being > hit by constant downloads (organizations are constantly re-downloading the > Internet to feed to machine learning training processes). This is true though; the web has changed significantly since I started thinking about this plan since AI bots are continuously harassing webmasters globally. But I think this is not anything that can't be solved with a caching layer, which we would have regardless (indeed we already have one as part of our nginx deployment). This is only an improvement in total processing power if it's not the case that the entire website (every single page) is requested every 24 hours. Right now it's possible that the entire site is being downloaded every day, but if we add things that make the site theoretically infinite then this won't be the case anymore. It comes down to a question of how big the cache is vs how much it costs to generate a page. I think it's difficult to know for sure without trying it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Metamath" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/metamath/CAFXXJSvE8q7GFhJm-hXGNm%2BvMKWwPBaJQxYu_hEaLe_HiY6pBw%40mail.gmail.com.
