Re: July tools update

Jeffrey Haas <jhaas@pfrc.org> Thu, 02 July 2026 19:32 UTC

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Subject: Re: July tools update
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Robert,


> On Jul 2, 2026, at 13:04, Robert Sparks <rjsparks@nostrum.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> ### BibXML
> 
> The BibXML service is not performing well. It suffers from not scaling to the current load, and from having components that cannot be easily adapted to changes in the inputs from various sources. As noted on the tools-disuss list, there's a database query in the path for every reference into the `/public/rfc` paths.

I realize the comment here is primarily about implementation. I'm curious how much of this impact is due to xml2rfc not aggressively caching stuff?

I ask this because some of the outages caused me to discover the --no-network flag when I was digging through the source.  At this point I run that mode more often for speed when I think about it. (I probably should just add it as an alias.)

-- Jeff