Cache interaction and loading speeds

[NoYes]

First, great program, great work.

There seems to be something slowing down loading the images, I was using it a bunch earlier today, and got a lot of images cached quickly before a lot of people hand downloaded it. This evening as I am trying to use it I am getting hit with extremely long load times on all the data, I understand the servers are getting hit hard right now, but I should be able to load the previosly cached data rapidly.

Thanks,
Matt Noyes

[Henk Poley]

Well, usually when fetching something from the cache you request if the object has changed on the server before displaying it to the user. With the current server load even this 'when was the last change?' may take a lot of time to process.

[NoYes]

Originally posted by Henk Poley@Sep 25 2004, 07:20 AM
Well, usually when fetching something from the cache you request if the object has changed on the server before displaying it to the user. With the current server load even this 'when was the last change?' may take a lot of time to process.
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Thats what I am guessing also. It would be better to see the old data fast, and then have it check to see if there is a newer one....waiting 5 minutes while it checks a couple dozen images just so I can see what I already have downloaded is rather frustrating :(.

[J.F. Richard]

I get the feeling that those are all problems that had never come up until now and had never needed solving. And to be fair, once the /. buzz dies down, this may not be an issue anymore...

[Henk Poley]

Yes, normaly the timestamp check is a very cheap operation compared to downloading the whole thing. But when the server is already bogged that doesn't help much.

So .. just wait untill the traffic surge dies off.