[Greasemonkey] userscripts.org

[Jeremy Dunck]

On 5/24/06, Nic James Ferrier <nferrier at tapsellferrier.co.uk> wrote:
> You're running rails behind apache? Can't rails be run under mod_ruby?

FCGI etc are supposed to be answers to the expensive processes
mod_ruby startups entail.

> >From my point of view (a user and *very* small contributor to the
> content of userscripts.org) the problem is
> scalability. userscripts.org is always very slow. This is because
> there's a single server (I expect).

Well, it's also because of file-per-session, excessive Rails warning
logging, somewhat expensive queries, and very little caching.  And,
you know, the runtime host crashing a lot.

> It would be really interesting to see some userscripts.org log files
> showing how many hits are coming in. Just how big is greasemonkey on
> the web?

I haven't checked in a while, but lots.  I'm sure Brett and/or Jesse
could give more detail, or I can after moving somewhere that doesn't
block outbound(!) ssh.