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by mojombo 5862 days ago
Archives are generated when they are requested and cached for fifteen minutes. This cache length results in an average of 3.5GB of cached archives on disk at any given time. We have to serve a large number of archives for arbitrary revisions, so making you wait a few seconds for a tarball is currently the best tradeoff. It's possible that in the future we will increase the cache TTL (and the size of the cache) so that you are more likely to hit an already generated archive.
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That explains it. Thanks! (and I won't complain anymore :p)