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Re: [mv] Why is MiniVend so slow??
****** message to minivend-users from Viktors Rotanovs <viktors@riga.nu> ******
Hi Keith,
I forgot to mention, mod_minivend saves some milliseconds
if your system does 'fork()' slowly. Go to altavista and search
for mod_minivend. It's for mv3, but works with mv4 too.
On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> ****** message to minivend-users from "Keith Pettit"
> <keithp@censoft.com> ******
>
> To be hones I'm not sure what it's using, it's just a tab seperated file as
> far as I know. Whenever I would make changes to the database I would just
> use Excel and export as a tab seperated file. I used the default for the
> basic setup. If it'll make much difference I'll make my switch over to
> MySQL alittle sonner. I was just trying to get the majority of things
> setup before I switched over.
>
> Thanks a ton for taking the time to look. I don't know if you noticed but
> our main page pull up in a sec or so, and I'm running some php, and cgi
> scripts that have pop right up with no delay. I just can't figure why the
> preformance would be so slow on MiniVend. I keep checking the resources
> and it never goes up above 5 percent.
>
> Keith Pettit
> WebMaster
> Century Software
> keithp@censoft.com
> www.censoft.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Barry Treahy, Jr." <Treahy@mmaz.com>
> To: <minivend-users@minivend.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 5:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [mv] Why is MiniVend so slow??
>
> > ****** 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?
> >
> > 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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