Re: delorie.com: a weak link for the cygwin archives?

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2001 at 03:24:45PM -0400, Fred T. Hamster wrote:
>  i'm having some trouble successfully finding things in the cygwin 
>archive.  i was trying to be a good citizen by ensuring that my question 
>has not already been answered in the archives, but their search engine 
>is the least responsive i've ever seen.
>  the behavior i am seeing is this.  i create a search on a particular 
>term (one word, in my case).  the search failed repeatedly with 
>time-outs.  finally after many attempts, it v--e--r--y s--l--o--w--l--y 
>produced the search results, which had 898 matches.  the request is not 
>on the order of terabytes, in other words.
>  so, now i have a bunch of matches to look at for my search term.  but 
>when i select one of the entries to read, the operation always times 
>out.  i have tried hitting some of the matched entries many times over 
>the last couple of hours, but so far no data has arrived before the 
>time-out.  oops, well of course when i just tried it again, i finally 
>got an entry to appear.  however, there definitely do seem to be some 
>drastic performance issues at delorie.  i have had more time-outs since 
>my success also.
>  i'm having trouble believing that this sluggishness is due to 
>thousands of people making search requests there, but possibly that's 
>it.  however, their site is clearly unable to keep up with whatever load 
>they actually have on their search engine.
>  is delorie.com the only way to research questions in the cygwin 
>archives?  i would think that redhat, having that nice affiliation with 
>google, would have much better support available for this purpose.
>thanks,

What nice affiliation is that?  If delorie.com isn't working use the
search capabilities of the mailing list themselves.  Click on the
mailing list link and then click on the mailing list that you are
interested in.

cgf

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