RE: [IUG] Crummy webpac response caused by OCLC?

[Cliff Glaviano <jglavia at bgnet dot bgsu dot edu>]

Hi Kyle, John,

    One Open WorldCat option (the most reliable, I think) relies on 
a redirect from WorldCat to your local catalog(s) by OCLC number.

     I'd guess that You may be blessed (or cursed) with folks using 
Open WorldCat to locate resources in libraries in your System.

     I would also guess that this kind of search shouldn't have a 
heavy impact on your response time unless you have proxy issues that 
need to be addressed.  OCLC may be able to supply some stats, III may 
be able to address (or point you in the right direction) firewall and 
proxy issues ... or, it's the gremlins again ...

TNX

Cliff


At 07:50 PM 6/5/2007, you wrote:
> Hi Kyle,
>
> I'll bet OCLC would know better than anyone on the list why they're
> clobbering your system.  Have you called them?
>
> John D. Boggs, PLAN Database Manager
> Peninsula Library System
> 2471 Flores Street
> San Mateo, CA  94403-2273
> (650)571-6799 x3062
> boggs at plsinfo dot org
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org
> [mailto:innopac-bounces at innopacusers dot org] On Behalf Of Kyle Banerjee
> Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 4:34 PM
> To: IUG INNOPAC List
> Subject: [IUG] Crummy webpac response caused by OCLC?
>
> Howdy all,
>
> Recently, we have been experiencing intermittent problems with our
> consortia webopac http://summit.orbiscascade.org/ responding very
> slowly or not at all.
>
> We've called the help desk a few times and had been told that runaway
> processes of unknown cause were the problem.
>
> Today, we're expecting a patch to be installed that will hopefully be
> useful. More interestingly, III mentioned that our catalog was being
> hit with several OCLC record number searches per second from the OCLC
> IP range.
>
> Just for the heck of it, I took a peek at the search stats and noticed
> that in the current searches, there were a huge number of OCLC
> searches. When I went to the search stats section, I'm seeing that
> over half of all searches on our system are OCLC number searches -- an
> impressive feat when you consider that our system serves 33
> educational institutions with a combined total of around 200,000
> students.
>
> We have a robots.txt file that should work (but obviously isn't).
> Anyway, I thought I'd give people a heads up. If your webopac has been
> slow lately, you might see if OCLC is involved. BTW, does anyone know
> why this might be happening? I would normally grouse about how it's
> not nice to clobber databases with high speed automated searches
> without regard for system impact, but I'd like to find out more before
> jumping to conclusions
>
> cranky kyle
>
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