> "Roy T. Fielding" wrote:
> >
> > > On daedalus, that ends up driving mod_mime_magic for many files every
> > > single time a browser accesses a distribution directory. This generates
> > > tons of overhead, including gunzip'ing at least part of every .gz file
> > > in the directory. I suppose we should try to shake out bugs in m_m_m,
> > > but we can do that without constantly driving it to choose the autoindex
> > > icons.
> >
> > WTF are we running mod_mime_magic on daedalus?
>
> beats me...I just work here.
>
> Bill Stoddard wrote:
> >
> > Errr.... mod_mime_magic? We should never be going through mmm on daedalus.
>
> I don't know why you say that, unless you mean that for best performance
> we should never be going thru it. We found a bug in m_m_m earlier this
> year, on daedalus.
Well, yes. And we know what daedalus is serving and should be able to configure in
such a
way as to avoid the need for m_m_m. I suppose there is value in using a non-optimally
configured apache.org as a test bed has some merit though :-)
Bill