Re: High system load due to bug mbox downloads

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hi Glenn,

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> writes:

> The first big mistake here is that using GET gets the full mbox, even if
> I’m only looking at the headers.  I don’t know if HEAD requests are
> supported, but they should have been a much cheaper way to request the
> modification times.  Since I made GET requests the server had to send
> the full mbox even though I mostly didn’t even read it.  Embarrassing!

Would it be acceptable to perform repeated HEAD requests for the mbox
file of all active bugs for “guix” and “guix-patches”?  Or is this as
expensive as GET requests for debbugs.gnu.org?

--
Ricardo