[ic] Most Common Performance Issues
John Beima
interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Thu Aug 22 20:23:02 2002
Quoting cfm@maine.com:
> 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?
>
>
You have also not mentioned if you are expiring old sessions or not.
John Beima
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