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Re: [mv] Why is MiniVend so slow??
****** message to minivend-users from Ryan Hertz <rhertz@gyb.baits.com> ******
At 04:27 PM 7/18/00 , you wrote:
>****** message to minivend-users from "Barry Treahy, Jr."
><Treahy@mmaz.com> ******
>
>First, when I was testing your site, the initial response wasn't a couple
>seconds, but more
>like 30 after DNS resolution. Once at the site, pages appears within 1-3
>seconds and I'm
>running on a 256k DSL. I'd focus on why the initial page sucks so much gas...
>
>Now, as for file structures, your not using flat files, when you mean
>ascii, you're
>actually running gdbm, right?
Using indexes on the products db helps a bunch, [perl] tends to be faster
for many operations, enabling page and search caching helps, and I imagine
that static page building would help even more. Oh, and more RAM sure
couldn't ever hurt. :-)
>Barry
>
>Keith Pettit wrote:
>
> > ****** message to minivend-users from "Keith Pettit"
> <keithp@censoft.com> ******
> >
> > Thanks for all the help and suggestions. I don't know what it was for sure
> > but I checked the sytem resources while it was slow and it was never using
> > more that 5 percent. I did go into the minivend.cfg file and changed it
> > from low traffic to high traffic, and it seemed to speed it up, but not to
> > where I want it to be. This is a pretty robust machine and all it does is
> > server web pages, and MySQL for those web pages.
> >
> > Will MinVend speed up any when I switch the database from the standard text
> > files to MySQL?
> >
> > I use PHP with MySQL quite a bit and I have to say it's always pretty
> zippy.
> > I'm hoping there will be some preformance increace when I move MiniVend to
> > MySQL.
> >
> > Anybody have any comments about the speed difference between MySQL and Text
> > file database?
> >
> > Keith Pettit
> > WebMaster
> > Century Software
> > keithp@censoft.com
> > www.censoft.com
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Chris Rapier" <rapier@psc.edu>
> > To: <minivend-users@minivend.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 2:08 PM
> > Subject: Re: [mv] Why is MiniVend so slow??
> >
> > > ****** message to minivend-users from Chris Rapier <rapier@psc.edu>
> > ******
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > Keith Pettit wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Whenever I go to the cart, it takes about 5 to 10 seconds to pull up.
> > > > THat's pretty darn slow, espically when I'm connecting via ethernet.
> > > > Anyways everything else on the server runs great, it's just the
> > > > MiniVend stuff that creeps along.
> > > >
> > > > This is my URL http://www.censoft.com/cgi-bin/cart
> > > > I'm still in the testing phase so there is no real load on MiniVend.
> > > > I used the basic cart as a template, and most everything is pretty
> > > > standard. The only real modification I've done is put an include
> > > > statement to have my header on the cart.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately just saying its slow doesn't help us all that much. There
> > > can be any number of reasons start from the purely phsyical up to the
> > > abtract construction of the pages. The first thing I would do is make
> > > sure that it really is just minivend.
> > >
> > > Start the minivend server with 0 load and find out how much memory its
> > > using. Make sure that you have enough memory available so you aren't
> > > swapping everything out. Put some load on the server again and check the
> > > memory.
> > >
> > > If you have plenty of memory then try changing your database format to
> > > db or gdbm. If your SQL server is slow its going to slow everything
> > > down. If you are feeling crazy try making the database type MEMORY.
> > >
> > > Then start looking at the docs for issues regarding your OS, perl
> > > version and version of minivend.
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