[mv] [mv4] Front page takes about 8 seconds to load the first time, faster after that.

[Mark Stosberg <mark@summersault.com>]

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Hello! 

  I'm developing a project with MV4, using a mix of custom Perl/SQL and
Minivend pages. I've noticed over several tries that when I load the
Minivend index.html page the first time, it takes about 8 seconds (which
seems mostly to be on the server side) the first time I connect and then
1 or 2 seconds for loads of that page after that. 
  I'm connected over a fast LAN to the server so I think I think can
take my connection speed out of the equation. :) 
  I did some poking around with "top" to see what was happening during
those 8 seconds. From what I can tell, it appears minivend is inactive
until the very end, when it pops up for just a second, does it's thing,
and then sleeps again. My front page is very basic, no database calls. I
would imagine the only thing Minivend is doing is creating a session id. 
  So then, my intuition leads me to think it's something do with
networking. I'm running on FreeBSD 3.1 in INET mode. (When I run in Unix
mode I get "server unavailable pages". I think this has something do
with my Apache/SuExec configuration ). 
   
  I read the docs on performance issues, but I'm still interested in
some further feedback. Do other people know of minivend reacting slowly
on the first load with INET and or FreeBSD, or for other reasons?

  Thanks,

    -mark

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