Hello Joey,
I noticed that my Ikiwiki started to rebuild pages very slowly after my last changes
when I upgraded Ikiwiki to version 3.20100623. Now I have the latest release 3.20100704,
but it doesn't help me.
I started to debug the problem and I found that I can see a lot of messages
like below when I try to rebuild my wiki manually:
svn: '/path/to/ikiwiki/trunk/pages/ostatnie_zmiany' is not a working copy
svn: Can't open file '/path/to/ikiwiki/trunk/pages/ostatnie_zmiany/.svn/entries': No such file or directory
svn log exited 256
"ostatnie_zmiany" is a value of recentchangespage parameter in my
ikiwiki.setup file. It is not under control Subversion I use for Ikiwiki:
$ svn status pages/ostatnie_zmiany
? pages/ostatnie_zmiany
$ ls pages/ostatnie_zmiany/*._change |wc -l
100
recentchangesnum parameter has value 100 for me and I noticed that my Ikiwiki
takes a lot of time to parse all ._change files. Finally it doesn't refresh
/ostatnie_zmiany.html page.
Do you think I should add ostatnie_zmiany directory under control of my
Subversion repo? If it's not necessary, could you please give me any hint
to find a reason of problem with my Ikiwiki?
My best regards,
Pawel
No, the recentchanges pages are automatically generated and should not
themselves be in revision control.
Ikiwiki has recently started automatically enabing --gettime, but
it should not do it every time, but only on the initial build
of a wiki. It will print "querying svn for file creation and modification
times.." when it does this. If it's doing it every time, something
is wrong. (Specifically, .ikiwiki/indexdb must be missing somehow.)
The support for svn with --gettime is rather poor. (While with git it is
quite fast.) But as it's only supposed to happen on the first build,
I haven't tried to speed it up. It would be hard to do it fast with svn.
It would be possible to avoid the warning message above, or even skip
processing files in directories not checked into svn -- but I'd much
rather understand why you are seeing this happen on repeated builds.
--[[Joey]]
