performance question...

[Robert Locke <rlocke@infiniteinfo.com>]

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Hello...

I am currently evaluating MV 3.12 (in non-group mode) on a P166
running Linux (2.0.30).  The machine has 128M of RAM (verified by
/proc/meminfo), but I am encountering performance issues surfing the
simple catalog:

First off, it takes about 2-4 seconds or more before pages begin to
display (say when placing an order).  In an admittedly primitive
experiment, we had 3 people order the same item at the same time and
it took about 10-12 seconds before the shopping cart appeared on
anyone's browser.  Do these numbers seem reasonable given the system
configuration?  Are there any benchmark numbers to refer to?

XOSView shows that no swapping is occuring and memory utilization
maxes out at about 45%.

On the same system, I ran a silly little shopping cart program I wrote
a long time ago and it worked almost instantaneously.  I know I'm
comparing apples and oranges - MV is 1000x cooler feature-wise.

So, am I doing something wrong?  Is the machine just too weak?  Our
production machine will be considerably beefier, but I'm worried about
scalability given these initial numbers.

I understand that some people are running MV with up to a million
items in their catalogs.  Are these sites also receiving heavy
traffic?  Are there any performance issues?  I assume these are
monster machines!

Anyways, I would love to use Minivend as our solution, so I would
appreciate any insights.

Thanks!

Rob Locke
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