[ic] Most Common Performance Issues

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On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 03:57:14PM -0700, Barry Treahy, Jr. wrote:
> Michael Stearne wrote:
> 
> >Our site is running IC on a DP 800Mhz Redhat box with 512MB of RAM 
> >with SCSI disk.  This machine runs only IC.  The site is based off of 
> >the foundation sample site and contains about 300 product using the 
> >standard (non-RDBMS) database.  We have seen decreasing performance 
> >over the last 6 months the site has been up.  There is up to 4 IC 
> >processes running at a time because of traffic.  Each page on the site 
> >takes from 2-10 secs to generate.  This is across all platforms and 
> >browsers at LAN speed. If an IC process has the machine to itself 
> >(only 1 user on the site), that process will take 97% of the CPU.  
> >While this is understandable, even when there is 1 process, it still 
> >takes ~4 seconds to generate a page.  I don't know how a machine as 
> >powerful can get floored by 4 concurrent users.
> >
> >Currently we run expireall each day.  This seems to help a little.
> >
> >What else could I do (configuration, cron, etc) to work on performance? 
> 

I'd suggest you get someone with sysadmin experience to look at it
first.  You say **only** IC.  Do you mean **only** IC PLUS
apache+mod_ssl+ whatever, etc...?

What does top tell you?  yadda yadda.

Nor do you say if you are making 15 thousand sales a day or 15.  How
many pages a day are you serving?




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