[ic] System requirements?

[Trevor Kenney]

For 'Low Traffic' settings all included pages...eg Leftside, Logobar etc are
read from Disk _every_ time.
eg in catalog.cfg
Variable      LEFTSIDE   [include config/__TEMPLATE__/leftside]
The TAG [include ....] is assigned to the Variable LEFTSIDE

For 'High Traffic' settings these pages are loaded into memory when MV/IC is
started/restarted, therefore serving/building from RAM rather than via disk
IO.
eg in catalog.cfg
Variable      LEFTSIDE   <leftside
The WHOLE of the content of the file catroot/config/leftside is assigned to
the Variable LEFTSIDE

'Low Traffic' is useful when designing a site....it negates the need to
'reconfig' your catalog every time you make a change to an 'included' page
(in the CatRoot/config dir)


regards

Trevor

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Case" <jeff_case@hotmail.com>
To: <interchange-users@minivend.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: [ic] System requirements?


> There are a few threads on this I think.
>
> One issue is the number of embedded tables used within the pages or HTML
> code in general.  If you cut out the tables, clean up the HTML tags, the
> pages will load faster (under most browsers).
>
> Also, not sure to what degree it's relevant, correlation or cause, but I
> switched from low_traffic settings to high_traffic and noticed a big
> reduction in the time it took to serve pages (ic 4.5.5).
>
>
> >From: Fawad Halim <fawad@fawad.net>
> >Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 22:19:47 -0500
> >
> >Hi,
> > I'm a new Minivend user. I'm playing around with 2 copies of
> >'construct' sample catalog. One using mysql and the other using the
> >native minivend database format. However, the pages are taking very long
> >to be formed. I have a 233mhz Pc with 32mb RAM. The pages take around
> >35-45 second each, even when I'm browsing from the local machine. I
> >tried using mod_minivend, but it got even slower.
> >
> >I didn't see any memory requirements on the minivend docs, so could
> >someone please guide me on how I can improve performance?
> >
> >In case it's of any help, my server is Apache/1.3.12 (Unix)
> >AuthMySQL/2.20 DAV/1.0.1 PHP/4.0.2 mod_ssl/2.6.6 OpenSSL/0.9.5a on
> >Linux. MySQL is version 3.23.25.
>
>
>
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