On Sun, 15 May 2005, rvijay07 wrote:
Recently, searches are taking longer at the PG site at times. A few days ago, in the evening when I tried a search, it said something like server overloaded and request to try again.
This is a good sign that more people are using PG.
Yes, this has been a good deal more common over the last few months. According to Marcello, sometimes a cause of this can be people who use robots which request all 15,000+ bibliographic records from the catalog in quick succession. Apparantly also an issue was people linking to many of the images included in some of our html files, in such a way that when many people tried to view _their_ website, all the images would be requested from the main PG site. I believe these two examples are really more of some misusing the PG archives than of a positive increase in attention. However, I do believe that normal, "single user downloading an ebook" activity is increasing as well. It's nice to have the "Top 100" as a reminder that many PG files are constantly being downloaded every day. Because sometimes, if you are dealing with rather obscure material, you can start to wonder "Is anybody ever really going to look at this once it's posted?" Andrew