Hi folks, First the update: Since fedoratracker.org launched the number of packages indexed by it has increased dramitically. This, as I'm sure many of you have noticed, has had a very serious affect on performance. When the problem got so bad that I found myself googling for packages instead of using my own tool (believe me, that is _not_ a fun position to be in) I knew something had to be done before FC3 was released. So, long story short, over the last several months I've devoted an inordinate amount of time to comepletely re-writing chunks of the Tracker's back-end code to improve performance and am pretty happy with the results. Improvements in this revision: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Very significant increases in package search speeds. Listing all packages in FC1 now takes about 9 seconds, for example. Once the DB has cached the result, the same search takes only 3 seconds. - Scalability improvements (so you can expect it to stay fast for the forseeable future) - Results are now shown 25 at a time instead of loading every match at once. I'm open to feedback about whether this number should be increased. - You can now search by package category, something I've been wanting to implement for a long time - Improved logging and exception handling Known issues that I will fix when I can, but have no timeframe for because I have to get back to the Real Job(tm) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Repository searches can still take about 15-20 seconds. I've figured out ways to cut this time down significantly but haven't had time to implement them yet. - For some reason the fedora.us repos did not index properly during the last nightly database update. Hopefully this problem will fix itsself on the next run. - I just noticed that the link for listing files in a package doesn't currently show anything. Not sure why this is. Probably a quick fix once I get around to it. Please check it out and I hope you find it useful. If you have comments, questions or bug reports, either respond in this thread or email brads -at- red hat com. http://www.fedoratracker.org --Brad
