Re: [Tools-discuss] Re: July tools update

[Kesara Rathnayake <[e-mail]>]

On Fri, 3 Jul 2026 at 07:33, Jeffrey Haas <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Robert,
>
>
> On Jul 2, 2026, at 13:04, Robert Sparks <[e-mail]> 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?
>
>
Currently, the xml2rfc cache expires after 14 days.
It's hard-coded; perhaps this should be configurable?

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.)
>

Yes, `--no-network` or `-N` flag should do the trick.

  --Kesara


>
> -- Jeff
>
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Kesara Rathnayake
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