[ic] interchange was fast now slow

Ed LaFrance interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Thu Feb 21 12:12:00 2002


At 08:41 PM 02/20/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>When I initially installed interchange I was blown away at the speed of
>my new dedicated server.  Both the foundation demo was fast as well as a
>much larger sample store that I put in for testing and configuring.
>That store has approx 700 items in gdbm.  Pages were coming up almost
>instantly.  I was performing searches that would return four or five
>hundred products in about 2 seconds.  I have no idea what changed.  Now
>even a catalog that is unchanged (foundation demo) is really slow....
>I checked the docs and searched the archives.  They said possible
>problems were:
>
>server specs- Mine is 1Ghz processor 512MB Ram and I have only 3
>catalogs installed and 3 sites.  These site pages are still fast.  The
>carts were fast as well as I mentioned.
>
>Sessions- I expired all sessions and cleaned out session data. No change
>
>I checked the logs, server and IC, and nothing is out of the ordinary.
>
>Can anybody help me see where to look next?  I need a little
>direction....
>
>By the way, there is little to NO traffic on this server as of yet, so
>that cant be it, the only traffic is us doing testing.
>
>Sincerely,
>Aaron Hazelton
>aaron@hazenet.net

Aaron -

Unless this box is sitting right on your desktop, don't overlook networking 
issues. Ping and traceroute your server from your location. If you see high 
latency and/or packet loss, that will definitely impact the end-user 
experience.

- Ed L.


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