914club.com BBS is slow, anyone else notice this? |
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914club.com BBS is slow, anyone else notice this? |
siverson |
Aug 17 2004, 12:46 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Benefactors Posts: 2,448 Joined: 5-May 03 From: San Diego, CA Member No.: 654 Region Association: Southern California |
I know this came up a few weeks ago, but was it ever resolved? The page load times seem to be getting slower and slower.
I can't imagine that you need a super high horsepower server or connection to run this site... Just playing armchair system admininstrator from the sidelines it seems some database tuning may be needed. I'd be happy to contribute to a fund for a faster server or some DB consultants time or... ? -Steve |
lapuwali |
Aug 27 2004, 10:05 PM
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Not another one! Group: Benefactors Posts: 4,526 Joined: 1-March 04 From: San Mateo, CA Member No.: 1,743 |
QUOTE THe thing that bothers me is that the slow down happened rather suddenly several months ago. It was all fine and dandy... and then something happened. It wasn't like it was a gradual decline in performance. That's consistent with swap being the problem. There's probably been a gradual increase in load as the forum got more popular, which probably causes more threads in Apache and MySQL to linger, which takes up more RAM, until it runs out. Then, suddenly, performance will nosedive as it has to swap. I've seen that time and again on growing websites running Linux. Memory is so cheap now that unless the box you're using is really old, you should be able to bump it up to 1GB pretty cheaply. I'd be willing to contribute $ (and labor, if necessary), just like in the hard drive buy. Should be cheaper than that was. Even going to 512MB would help a great deal. Once you have adequate memory, another thing that may help is using Squid or the like to do static content serving. Apache is actually pretty heavy-weight for static content, and putting Squid in httpd-accelerator mode ahead of it, and setting it to only cache certain kinds of responses (basically nothing with .php in the URL, here) can also speed things up dramatically, as Squid is very efficient at stupid things like static content (images, esp). |
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