[geeklog-users] geeklog performance

[Vincent Furia]

Just a side note, we really should contact the groklaw.net folks and
try to figure out which (if any) of the changes they made to speed up
groklaw.net are implementable in geeklog.  I'm sure they have at least
a few tricks for speeding things up.

-Vinny


On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 08:17:34 -0600, Tony Bibbs <tony at tonybibbs.com> wrote:
> Most of the load is, undoubtedly, on the database.  Do you have MySQL's
> query cache feature enabled and optimally configured?  I'd start there.
> I'd also strongly encourage using a php accelerator like APC:
> 
> http://pecl.php.net/package/APC
> 
> I'm hoping you aren't doing either of those yet and if that is the case
> you can expect significant improvements from both.
> 
> FWIW my site, http://www.iowaoutdoors.org is averaging around 1.5 load
> times on the homepage and significantly worse in the forums.  Only thing
> I have going for me is a fast pipe to the server.  Performance is going
> to continue to be an issue in the foreseeable future.
> 
> --Tony
> 
> Robin Bowes wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I wonder if anyone could help me out with a performance problem I'm
> > having with my geeklog site (http://robinbowes.com)?
> >
> > According to the timing at the bottom of the page, the front page
> > takes between 1.5-2 seconds to create, which I think is rather slow.
> > Some topic pages load in around 0.5/0.6 seconds, but I think even that
> > is a little slow.
> >
> > The box is a dual CPI PIII with 1.5GB RAM.
> > Storage is software RAID created from 6x250GB SATA drives.
> > System is Fedora Core 3, with apache 2.0.52, php 4.3.9, mysql 4.1.7.
> > geeklog is latest from CVS as of about 1 hour ago.
> >
> > Load average is barely above 0.0, 375MB RAM is used (excluding cache
> > and buffers).
> >
> > I've tried disabling plugins (RDF blocks, images, etc) but that didn't
> > seem to make much difference.
> >
> > Any sugestions?
> >
> > R.
> 
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