Plugins API timeouts

[johnbillion]

While browsing through the 'Popular' tab on the Plugins -> Add New screen in trunk, I'm noticing that most of the requests to the Plugins API are timing out. After the "An unexpected error occurred..." message is shown and I reload the page, the response seems to be very quick, likely due to a cache hit the second time around.

If you manually navigate to anything beyond about page 15 you should see the same behaviour if you don't get a response from a cache hit.

I'm using ​Query Monitor to monitor the HTTP requests to the API on these pages.

[johnbillion]

I should add that what I mean by browsing is paging through the screens one after the other.

[netweb]

Not sure if this is the same issue exactly, waiting ~20 seconds for "Install Now" to turn up:

Repro:

• Add new plugin screen
• Search for Akismet
• Click "more details"
• Wait for "Install Now" to show up

​https://cloudup.com/cjhuaWgTUl8

[obenland]

After Shiny Updated v2 and the plugin directory update, is this still an issue?

[dd32]

I have a feeling that this was mostly fixed by the new plugin directory - although there are some API args which will be slower at high page numbers

[obenland]

Let's keep an eye on it and close it for now. I couldn't reproduce it anymore either.