Response bogging down over time

["Michael E. Havlicek" <havlicek@infinet.com>]

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Hi All,

I am new to the group. 

First I admit that I haven't read through the whole mail archive or all of
the docs. 

I have been given a short deadline to replace shopping capabilities now
provided by "Intershop" (intershop of horrors:) with MiniVend.

I was given 2 weeks to do the transfer....
 
I am getting close to creating a test site that uses minivend just for the
shopping cart.

The big problem I am dealing with is that the site I am dealing with 
already has a custom sofisticated dynamic engine. 

In a nutshell, we generate a site consisting of about 3500 products. 
It is dynamically based upon a perl script that generates pages based upon a 
tree traversal that sniffs out "templates" and builds html 

Big fun was accessing the minivend shopping cart from our own cgi that 
built our webpages. I ended up calling the sidepanel (navbar) through minivend
to get a SID and hiding its value in a hidden frame with javascript..
I then go to our own cgi to generate product pages and grab the SID out
of the hidden frame using javascript to generate a button that went to
the minivend cart for the final product page. (sorry for the bad english:(

The site I am developing a replacement for is "www.jegs.com".

To the point.... the disturbing thing that I found was that hacking the
simple catalog base demo using defaults lead to a minivend who's performance 
went to a grinding halt after 2 days.

I saw that there was an internal httpd that was discouraged. Perhaps I
am using that? 

Restarting the minivend daemon sped things up.

So do I have to restart the minivend daemon daily or less to keep performance
reasonable?

I found the instructions during installation very confusing regarding 
the internal httpd (in installation it talked about an htttpd...:)

-Mike
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