For what it's worth, pg said that "crawlers are disproportionately bad for HN's performance because HN is optimized to serve recent stuff, which is usually in m

For what it's worth, pg said that "crawlers are disproportionately bad for HN's performance because HN is optimized to serve recent stuff, which is usually in memory" (at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3277661 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3277661).